House of Stories
Lobo Peak in morning cloud, from Casa De Cuentos house, near Taos
The last time I spent more than three nights in a hotel as part of a vacation was with my parents when I was 18 – that was my final family vacation as the child rather than as the parent. Almost every vacation I have taken since leaving college in 1979 has been in a rental home. If you think that vacations are synonymous with hotels you should really give renting a house or an apartment a try.
This summer we spent two weeks near Taos in a house named Casa de Cuentos, “House of Stories”. Awesome was how one of my twin 13 year old daughters judged the house 10 seconds after we got through the front door. And that was before she had seen the queen size bed in the room she did not have to share with her sister (who had a queen bed in a room of her own).
This picture of Lobo Peak (maybe it’s Perra Peak?) was taken from the deck of the house at breakfast on our first morning. You won’t find many hotels with a view like this from your own private table. For photography, it was a prolific fortnight and you can find all of the results in the Casa De Cuentos & Taos Area, New Mexico, 2008 album of this blog’s parent site.
You can find Casa de Cuentos on the vacation home sites www.homeaway.com and www.vrbo.com. The same sites list tens of thousands of other vacation homes all over the world.
