It begins with the quality of the air.  Maybe it’s the faint scent of piñon smoke or roasting chile you’re picking up on, or the high altitude, or perhaps it’s just the quality of the light that so many artists have come to Taos to capture for themselves.

Maybe it’s the sense you get of just how old Taos really is, when you gaze up at the Sangre de Cristo Mountains or first see the gorge that the mighty Rio Grande has carved deep across the desert.  Your perspective changes when you visit the people at the Taos Pueblo or see the paintings done by the artists who were here in the 20s.

Each morning when the sun rises over the peaceful Ranchos Valley, time seems to slow down as the horses graze and a hawk drifts by. You get the sense that maybe Taos is not the most luxurious place on earth but it just might be one of the most genuine places on earth. 

Taos is made of many people and many experiences— natives, mountain men, artists, tourists, socialites, writers, travelers, traders, renegades, radicals, scouts, scholars, missionaries, and seekers: seekers of fortunes, seekers of visions, seekers of the truth, seekers of peace.  All have been embraced by the “mother mountain” and each has left a bit of their soul behind here.  If you let her, she'll embrace you too.

Millicent and Mabel were two such seekers.  They came, they saw, they felt drawn to stay.  They lived in Taos and Taos changed them. 

They are in Taos still.

Stay at Millicent and Mabel's Bed and Breakfast and you'll get a real "Taos Experience" - guaranteed.