自我介绍

In these parochial times it is worth saying - I immigrated to these United States 40+ years ago; I first came to this strange land of Northern New Mexico to go to college and then fell in love with it. It is a place so unlike anywhere else and it is also so un-American . I left NM for 15 yrs to to do the life of the big city but always felt the pull to return and I have made Taos home since 2002. Travel has always been a big part of my life - I have been to all but 2 states and much of Canada and - also India, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Paris, the Netherlands, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain, Portugal, Italy, & England. But I am always glad to return to our Valley. Things I love--Taos Ski Valley is one of the great ski mountains of North America and I feel very lucky to be skiing it and learning it and loving it every winter. And then there is mountain biking and hiking and the art and complex and rich culture of northern NM that I love. We have our home in a rambling old adobe that started out in the ~1890s as a couple of weaver's cabins that were slowly transformed into a single home by 1960. We bought this house from an old Austrian lady who had filled it with the stories of her amazing life in the shape of antiques - old bibles from the beginning of the printing press; rugs; art - a Renoir, Hokusai prints and Klimt drawings. We have been hosts since 2004 - long before the arrival of this airbnb portal and so we can claim to be experts - our guide in this -- as in so much of life - is the principle of do unto others as u would have done to oneself. Which means that our homes are warm, welcoming, artfully assembled, and comfortable. Welcome to Taos!