My former bandmate and excellent musician, Mike Kinney, just released an album that he called Wild Saints. What a great album name. High Road to Taos, also strikes me as a good album name. I’ll get right on it and compose some tunes.
The real 90 mile High Road to Taos Scenic Byway is yet another gorgeous road through the New Mexican mountains. It is dotted with a couple of QTs, but it is mostly the wild desert hill and mountain scenes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as it weaves in and out of the Carson National Forest.
Our first stop along the way was in the village of Chimayo. The main attraction, besides a scattering of art galleries, is the Santaurio de Chimayo, an adobe church complex. Built in 1816, it has become a pilgrimage destination due to the “healing dirt”. No kidding, in one tiny room in the church is a small hole in the floor where pilgrims can scoop up some sand.
There is also the Santo Nino de Atocha, a chapel for children, built in 1857. All the decorations inside were done for children over the decades.
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