Yesterday was such a great adventure… Dan and I checked out of our Airbnb went back and picked up Max , And he, Diane, violet and I got in the car and headed north towards Taos .

The road was hot and dry… We stopped a little bit at the Rio grande To cool our feet

Got two towels which was a cute little artist town… Sort of like Stowell after a 20 year drought. We walked around looking at a little gift shops looking at the little cute tourists

From there we headed to the John Donne bridge over the Rio grande… It was really spectacular

We down and up a trail from there to check out a hot springs right on the banks of the Rui grand complete with naked hippies !

From there we headed towards Max and our sprint Scott… First with a quick rainy stop at the “earth ships”… They are 100% recyclable all from earth or trash houses… It looked a little bit like visiting tattoine in star wars

I’m barely drove about 40 minutes and then took a turn straight into the desert… And drove for about 35 minutes to the middle of nowhere with Scott and his girlfriend Indy are building truly in the We know him from the sunburn festival and a visit to Portland.middle of nowhere . Indy was out at a climbing camp so only scott was there .

It was a spectacular setting we cooked out, drank beer , stared at the wonderful nature while the dogs all played

the. A long peaceful drive back to Santa Fe.

What a great day with family and friends !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Dan and I had a busy day shopping for a few things for Max and Becky’s house.…

That evening we met up with my friends Eben , Heidi and Their daughter Payton at Harry’s Roadhouse… Which is down near where Max and Becky used to live. Evan is a good friend of my good friend Homer… He worked with us on the time cycle that is an excellent excellent excellent metal worker.

Heidi has done a lot of things… She used to run a healthy Foods grocery in Vergennes and they ran an animal sanctuary… Now she’s helping her sister with us project here… And Payton is really sweet nine-year-old-year-old. I was really excited to introduce Kevin and Max because they both love working in metal. It was so nice hanging out with him… We had a great meal and a great time.

Nice evening !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

On Thursday night Max ‘Diane and I took a nice long walk to one of our favorite Santa Fe style Mexican restaurants. Call Maria’s and it’s about a half an hour walk away. It was a beautiful evening and we got to explore some of the neighborhood… Max and Becky are considering making a new stucco Fence outside their house this is the style here so it was nice to do some comparison looking.… One of the great things we saw was a blooming century plant. Really something amazing to see up close. I think they only bloom every 10-20 years or so.

Dinner at Maria’s was awesome… They had fantastic margaritas !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Dianne and I borrowed maxes car and drove up into the mountains take a hike today. It was beautifully cool up in the mountains. We decided to go on the big Tesuque trail. It was a beautiful up-and-down walk through a mostly descending canyon. There was tons of wildflowers. We had a great picnic lunch and then got back just as it started to hell like crazy. But then switch to an amazing rain storm which bright flash flooding. It was water pouring Pouring over the Mountain Road and washing giant rocks in. We were very glad to have four-wheel-drive vehicle.

It’s a really great to be out hiking…