The canyon has opened out and you are coming back into Taos, which closes the circle. Whatever the odometer says, you have been around the highest mountain in New Mexico.
A few things worth doing now that you are back, if you have daylight left.
The Plaza is the obvious one — walk it, and the streets off it, which are where the good galleries are. The Harwood Museum and the Millicent Rogers Museum are both excellent and neither is large enough to exhaust you.
Taos Pueblo, if it is open to visitors that day — and remember what I said at the start: it is a living village, so go with the manners you would want in your own neighbourhood.
The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is about ten minutes west on Sixty-Four and is worth the detour, especially near sunset.
And out on the mesa west of the gorge you will see the Earthships — houses built from packed tires, bottles and cans, off-grid, catching their own water. They started here in the nineteen seventies out of the same impulse that built the communes, and unlike the communes they are still going. There is a visitor center.
Eat something with green chile on it. When they ask red or Christmas, Christmas means both.
Boone and I have one more thing to say.
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