When I was 69: Alternative building techniques from New Mexico

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Alternative building techniques from New Mexico - Three

Today we'll look more at the little B&B where we stayed two nights for our visit to the

Earth Ships, Taos NM, and even a trip to Santa Fe in 2019.

Shades are available to control the amount of sunlight coming in the windows. Of course

solar panels help with electricity.

Nice landscaping was done on the approach to the house.

You can see part of the roof has a garden.

This was the first week in Sept. 2019. Lots of nice indigenous plants in the entrance area.

There's a lot of desert out there! Many strange looking buildings are all around.

And inside our earth ship B&B.

My bedroom was in the living/dining area...but a nice big comfy bed was fine for me.

Zora is my grandpup

The cord coming down from the ceiling leads to a vent which can be opened or closed.

I don't travel all that light, with a C-PAP machine and nebulizer too. But see that paper map book on top of my laptop under the pink bag? It came in handy a bit, because out in the desert sometimes there was no signal to find where we were going. Once we went east into the mountains rather than west to the Earth Ship B&B. Eventually we figured out that we were going the wrong way!

Nice small functional bath...

King size bed for the bedroom. All the windows face south for passive solar heating, and there are small gardens right below them, watered with grey water (sink).

Another vent in ceiling for passive temperature control.

Son and daughter-in-law fixed something to take along on our drive down to Santa Fe. Of course Zora came too, but stayed in the car while we visited the O'Keefe Museum.

Today's quote:

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.

-Thomas De Quincey, writer (15 Aug 1785-1859)