Recent Travel Articles About Taos
Small Market Meetings
New Mexico Meeting Guide (Taos Featured)
by Becky Ferrero
Small Market Meetings Magazine, June 2008
There are many reasons why New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment. Nearly non-stop sunshine, colorful artwork, century old adobes, and celebrated red and green chiles are among the state's charms. Few states offer meeting planners so much variety.... See the complete piece, including a feature about Taos on pages 28-29, at Small Market Meetings Magazine.
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Today's Unresolved Mysteries: The Taos Hum
The Today Show Weekend Edition
by Lester Holt
Today Show, NBC Network, February 16, 2008
This four minute NBC piece is about the elusive -- and fun -- 'Taos Hum'. It also shows a lot of Taos' spectactular outdoor beauty from the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge and other locales. See the complete piece at The Today Show web site.
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Find the Real New Mexico
by Matthew Jaffe
Sunset Magazine, October 2007
There was an autumn 10 years ago when I was ready to move to Taos. I had made friends here and fallen hard for hikes in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains by day and raucous conversations over margaritas by night in Taos's de facto living room, the Adobe Bar...
Now I'm back in another fall, this time with my wife, Becky, and all the old sensations of Taos come alive again. The cottonwoods are aglow, clad in October gold. Their leaves shimmy in the breeze, fluttering to the ground where they tumble down the street and crunch underfoot.
Lured by the promising twilight, we head to San Francisco de Asis Church, an 18th-century structure that, thanks to Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, became a modern art icon... — Read full story at sunset.com or at Sunset Magazine archive.
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The Hidden Southwest
14 Secrets of the Southwest
by Christopher Ketcham
National Geographic Adventure Magazine, March 3, 2008
#7...you can bring a sommelier and RAFT In STYLE
The classic three-day raft trip between El Vado and Abiquiu on the airbrushed Chama River (think multicolored sandstone canyons, old-growth ponderosa stands, and meadows blazing with purple asters) hardly needs an infomercial-style bonus offer. But act now and Taos-based Los Rios River Runners will arrange for an astronomer, archaeologist, gourmet chef, sommelier, local-lore storyteller, yoga instructor, or -- new for 2008 -- herbalist to accompany its guests... --Read full story at NationoalGeographicAdventure.com
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Art
Welcome to New Mexico. Now Create
By Jori Finkel
The New York Times, January 27, 2008
From a distance they looked like any other tourists at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, trudging through a muddy, slushy January landscape in black boots and black parkas with cameras and video cameras in hand. But from the snatches of conversation you could tell they were artists of one sort or another... -- Read full story at nytimes.com.
