Travel to Taos, NM

Today was a travel day from Carlsbad to Taos. Overall it was about 6 hours of travel with stopping along the way. We left in the morning and the drive through central New Mexico was straight highway with really nothing to see but scrub brush trees and cactus along the highway. We stopped in Roswell, NM and then Vaughn, NM for some lunch. Unfortunately in this tiny town there is only one diner and it was closed for an event....so we ended up eating hot foot from a quicky-mart and gassing up the car. About 2/3 of the way the landscape turned into hundred foot pine trees and national forest. We spent the rest of the way to Taos winding up and through the highway meandering through the Carson National Forest. It was a much needed change from the flat, straight highway previously. Then we arrived in Taos, a small, quiet town where people actually stop to let you walk across a crosswalk. Very surprising compared to Austin, where we would have been road kill...Read more