Jean and I spent the first several days of the New Year in New Mexico. We set off on our trip earlyish New Years Eve morning. Jean is currently training for the Austin Marathon (happening in February) and has grown a lot stronger in the past couple of months reaching a point to where she actually enjoys running. It's a crazy world. Enroute she suggested we stop in San Angelo where it looked like there was a nice path along the Concho river. Jean did a 4 mile run while I had a burger at a brewery on the river front. Our eventual goal was Taos but we stayed the first night (New Years Eve) in Roswell, New Mexico at a Best Western. There we met up with with our friends/neighbors Hunter and Mandi who we would be sharing the Taos accommodation with. On the road to Taos The next day we took the winding highway 518 through the mountains into Taos arriving at midday. We couldn’t check in until 4 pm so Jean and I went hiking while Hunter and Mandi found a place to watch the Texas/Arizona ...