Does this appeal to more than just Taosanios?

I live in Taos because I fell in love with my recently deceased first wife's best friend.

I love that sentence.

But I didn't come to Taos. I came to fill a Void - I came to my end, and my beginning.

My knowledge of Taos New Mexico pre-1990 can be summed up in word, McCloud.
My first visit was with my first wife.

Maria had lived here in the latter 80's and wanted to see her best friend F and her family while exposing this City Boy to the Enchanted Circle, to Pow Wow, the Rio, the Mystery, the Vibe.
To this day I will never forget the moment we came out of the Horseshoe after an hour long climb through The Canyon heading north to Taos.
The moment of the Reveal.

Taos is located in the shadow of Taos Mountain nestled in it's embrace.
Spreading from the Pueblo and into the sunlight of the Mesa, her outer western boundary is defined by a jagged rift in the earth aptly named The Gorge.
A fifty mile scar born of the cataclysmic gnashing of tectonic teeth, The Rio Grand Gorge leads you in a steady ascent north following The Rio through The Canyon funneling you into The Horseshoe. A treacherous, sharply curved down and up S turn, ( the only southerly access to Taos, often closed during the ice of winter) the final climb traces the rocky lip of the mesa/foothills before straightening for it's gentle descent into Taos.

Cresting that last sweep, eyes skyward gazing into piercing blue azure, you level off.
Depth perception returns, behold the geological tableau spread before you!

The Mountain; like a king and court sweeping from right to left, arms encircling Taos. The mid-morning sun streams down in Byzantine golden beams dancing across the cloud shadowed mesa. As your eyes adjust to the brilliant contrast of heightened lights and translucent darks - snaking through the  distance beneath is the coiled python that is The Gorge.


She let out a war whoop. It left an impression.

You have to leave to stay in Taos, it's one of the Tenants. and if this sight doesn't stir your soul the Mountain will surely spit you out.