Thursday, Terry and I drove to Taos, New Mexico, U.S. and back to Craig, to attend a writing conference there. It was sponsored by the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque; I took a poetry class, mostly focused on the critical analysis of poems, poetic form, etc. and Terry took a memoir class with Rob Wilder, a memoir writer and high school teacher in Santa Fe.
We drove our little Jetta TDI. I think there may be a picture or two of this great little car.
It gets great fuel economy, even though diesel is a higher than gasoline….46+ m/p/g, and she runs great….fast, powerful, handles great, good tires. A fun car to travel in.
We drove through
Meeker,
Rifle,
Grand Junction,
Delta,
Montrose
(overnight on Thursday night),
Ridgeview (
with a side trip to see Dennis Weaver's earthship house),
Ouray,
Silverton (coffee),
Durango (lunch with my brother Arthur),
Bayfield,
Pagosa Springs,
Chama, N.M.,
Tre Piedros, into
Taos.
On the way back, we drove through
Tres Piedros,
ntonita,
Alamosa (where I left my keys),
(not quite) Salida,
Buena Vista,
Leadville (where I discovered my keys were lost and called to have them sent to me), to
Minturn,
Edwards,
State Bridge,
McCoy,
Phippsburg,
Yampa (where we had a chocolate shake) to
Oak Creek, to
Hayde over 20 Mile Road, to
Craig. Hooray
Probably the best part of the Sagebrush Inn was talking to the cook in the kitchen at 5:30 a.m.. He’d worked there 24 years and explained how he’d worked through the Ramada chain and then decided he liked the little town that was Taos and stayed. He smiled; the lines around his mouth were warm and soft, like a man with a sense of humor.
I met, in person, a wonderful woman that I had been corresponding with—Susan Twiet…check out her blog: communityoftheland.blogspot.com.
We had lunch, we talked, bonded. I told her she was beautiful. What a wonderful, gentle soul. Thanks, Susan.
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