Category: New Mexico Living

1000 Year Old Village Where Families Still Live!

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Taos Pueblo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America — and it is still home to families today.

This video is a quiet walk through the pueblo, observing its adobe architecture, San Geronimo Church, Red Willow Creek, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising behind it.

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Taos Pueblo is a living community, not a museum. Traditions, ceremonies, and daily life continue here much as they have for over a thousand years.

Filmed respectfully and intentionally, this video is meant to be experienced slowly.

📍 Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

A Road Through Time | The High Road to Taos

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This high-speed dash cam journey follows New Mexico’s High Road to Taos, passing through ancient Spanish land-grant villages, quiet mountain roads, and some of the most beautiful historic adobe churches in the Southwest. With the Sangre de Cristo mountains as a backdrop, the drive is a must-do if visiting New Mexico!

Many of the villages along the High Road to Taos began as Spanish land-grant settlements in the 1600s–1800s, when Spain (and later Mexico) granted land to families and communities to encourage settlement in what is now northern New Mexico. The original direct Spanish descendants live there today.

Our drive ends at Taos Pueblo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. They speak the Traditional New Mexican Spanish. It’s a unique, 400 year old dialect only spoken in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. It originated from the 16th century Spanish Settlers, Indigenous influences and subsequent isolation.

History unfolding through the windshield.

Origami in the Garden | New Mexico’s Most Unexpected Art Experience

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Discover Origami in the Garden, one of New Mexico’s hidden gems, located near Los Cerrillos, NM on the Turquoise Trail, where large-scale metal origami sculptures are s placed throughout otherworldly rock formations. 🌸 This outdoor art experience blends nature, creativity, and New Mexico’s unique landscape, creating a peaceful and visually stunning destination that many visitors overlook. 👉 Watch until the end for our special surprise encounter! 📍 Location: Near Los Cerrillos, New Mexico 🎨 Features: Monumental origami sculptures, garden paths, red rock formations https://origamiinthegarden.com/

HIKE THE HOODOOS at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument New Mexico

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Take an amazing hike with us through slot canyons among giant hoodoos on the Cochiti Pueblo tribal lands in New Mexico. Note: you must get a BLM permit at recreation.gov and a ticket from the Cochiti Pueblo well in advance of your planned hike. BLM ticket is 5.00 per person and Pueblo ticket is 20.00 per person. Check in at the visitor center the day of your hike and a tribal member will pilot car you into the trail head 4 miles down the road. The trail is easy to follow but can get to be a bit of a scramble in places and a steep scramble towards the top. We did a total of 3.7 miles out and back. It will take a few hours because of all the pictures you’ll stop and take! It’s well worth it as you will see!

Santa Fe Railroad Adventure

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We took a super fun train excursion on the Sky Rail Way out of Santa Fe. This trip is 3 hours long and so much happened on on this train, it was hard to scale it down to a 10 minute video! So here is a snippet of our adventure! Here is the link if you’re ever in Santa Fe and want to do something super FUN!

High Elevation Living in New Mexico

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Coming from living at 300 feet above sea level in California to 6850 feet above sea level in New Mexico had it’s challenges at first. I had a little bit of altitude sickness (headache, no appetite and lethargy for the first week, but I adjusted slowly. Riding my bike uphill to the mailbox was a bitch but I did it daily to get those red blood cells built up! But, since I’m already half way there, why not go up a little further? Just 35 minutes from my house, the mountains rise to over 10K feet! Let’s go check it out, shall we?