The Roots Tour: Taos, 2017 Day 9

After staying at the most anonymous airport hotel ever, one in a string of anonymity sprouting up on the prairie a few miles from DIA, we have a completely uneventful trip home. 

And so ends the Roots Tour.  We’ve come down from our fences, and taken it to the limit, and Taos gets two thumbs-up from the new band members, although we miss our former mate.  And we think we may have missed a green chile cheeserburger or two, and Izzy never got to eat at the Bav or the St. Bernard, so who knows . . . 2018?

The Roots Tour: Taos, 2017 Appendix

Appendix

Peter’s ranking of Taos-area green chile cheeseburgers

1. St. Bernard lodge deck – the setting may have influenced it, or maybe it was the fact that you could load on your own chiles, and blue cheese.  But this burger is far above the rest.

2. Alley Cantina – pretty much on par w/ Michael’s.

3. Michael’s Kitchen – good, big burger, nicely shiny bun, lots of cheese and chiles.

4. Five Star (a local – Santa Fe and Taos – chain) – distant fourth, no excitement under that pale cheese, tried to make up for it with fancy green chile aioli.

5. Sonic – well, what did you expect?

6.  The nameless diner near the Denver airport – what is this avocado masquerading as green chile?

Liner Notes:

The album from this tour may be titled Coming Soon (see photos on Facebook), and may or may not feature the following songs:

(living it up at the) Casa Escondida

The Ballad of Slim Slidell

No Place Like Hondo (feat. David Winner[1])

Make Your Own Wind

Self-Arrest

Kachina Suicide

Opening for Flan on their next tour:  Strudel (hot since their debut album:  Live at the Bavarian.) 

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[1] David is responsible for my fabulous haircut.  He is also a great skier, and tells a very funny story about Hondo.  We think this could be a spoken-word piece.