from taos nm

hi everybody. we got here this afternoon, crossed over some pretty good size mtns, including the continental divide again. drizzling, sleeting, then snowing up the mtn, but not sticking on the road thanks god. anyway, taos is like new hope or flemington with a sw flavor to it, and a little more upscale in some ways. i'm noticing a lot of old hippies out here, not just here, i mean pretty much everywhere we've been. there is a definite counter culture out here, but they are now small business owners. for example, i'm sitting here in this cyber-cafe, wired, and for the last 40 minutes it's been non-stop hendrix on the sound system. very pleasant. and i also noticed that everybody smiles at you. everybody. if you make eye-contact with them you are going to get a smile or a nod at least. very friendly open people.

so i put another 40 pictures up this afternoon, more or less. they include pictures i took today 90 minutes ago here in taos. what cool technology this digital thing is. so as of today, the pictures are as current as they could be.



added later: short video of some NM churches and chapels, accompanied by my buddy Ron Orlando. Check it out...You gotta get right with Jesus.

weather kind of sucks. rainy a lot over the last 2-3-4 days. snowy at the highest elevations. since rawlins, at least we haven't been held up by snow. forecast is for more of the same over the next couple of days, so i don't think we'll have that great weather back until we get to arizona and monument valley the end of this week. looking forward to that big time. haven't had the top off the car in 2-3 days i guess.

only 12 days left on this odysseyan (a word?) journey. you know what i mean. it's a good thing that the end of the trip has some really cool places like monument valley and the np's in utah to look forward to. because i'm ready to come home now.

ok that's it. miss you all, love you. check the new pix! thanks for your time...