On the drive back to Santa Fe, we took the "High Road" or back road from Taos to Pojoaque. This takes you through several very small towns and some pretty scenery in the distance. This is Black Mesa. You can also see that there is rain in the distance.
Since we still had quite a bit of time before check-in at our hotel, we drove through Los Alamos. (altitude 7,320' ) It has been 30 years since I was last there. It has many more amenities. (Even a Starbucks) When we first went there in 1975, the only shopping was at the grocery stores, a hardware store and a Sears Roebuck catalogue store where you could order. When MacDonald's and Target opened, we thought we died and went to heaven.
A high point in Los Alamos life then was to feed the ducks at the cement circle named Ashley Pond Pond. No, that is not a typo. The founder school that was there before the lab was Ashley Pond, thus the cement circle was named after him - Ashley Pond pond. In 2014 it was redone and now it just lovely.
We stopped by a Sonic on our way to SF so that everyone could get their Cherry Limeade fix.
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