Taos Revisited - Part 3

Continuing on around the Enchanted Circle, we stopped in Eagle Next and Red River, and here are a few fun pictures we took along the way.

Sign on an outdoor patio at a restaurant.

A homey-looking chair and Alan's legs.

The next few shots are from Red's Texas Steakhouse in Red River.  Good food and you even throw your peanut shells on the floor.

Back outside, obviously. 

These cute little "cars" are for rent in Red River for $30/half hour.  We took photos for free but I am sure they were fun to drive around.

New Mexico must have more hollyhocks than anywhere in the world.  They are everywhere and so pretty.

Back to Taos.

We have seen so many beautiful weavings done on looms like this.

The door on a "country" furniture store.

Outside the Hummingbird Bead Store.

One thing we have been very successful at in Taos is eating out lots and finding wonderful food.  If you are ever here, check out the stuffed sopapillas at Michael's Kitchen.

Our newest fun thing is the Bento Box at Yu Garden Asian Cuisine, a tiny place just a few minutes from the RV Park.  The internet tells me that a Bento Box is a packed lunch or box lunch that originated in Japan in the 5th century.  Originally, they were lacquered wood and usually contained dried rice balls.  In the 1920's, there were aluminum Bento Boxes and they were a sign of wealth since they were silver color.  Cheryl, Sandy's daughter, tells us that they are used for meals on the Japanese bullet train.  In modern times, they are used like school lunch boxes and are sold at train stations and theaters.  There are even prepared and frozen Bento Boxes, kind of like Japanese Lean Cuisine!

However, this picture shows our lunch Bento Boxes.  Yum.

Soup to start, then lemon chicken, salad with a citrus dressing, fried rice, tempora vegetables and fried bread for dessert.  There are other main dishes, but this was mine and I ate almost all of it!

Taos has the most amazing clouds as evidenced below.

The new crop of  Hatch chiles are in, and this is the line at Albertson's this morning.  The people in the line are waiting to have their chiles roasted in the big cookers.  Chiles are purchased in big gunny sacks as shown below.  Kind of an amazing sight.  Betti and I were definitely tourists taking these pictures.