Since our last week of work in Petaluma coincided with my birthday, I decided that I wanted to go skiing in Taos, NM on our way back home. The detour to get to Taos was only about 2-3 hours, so it was totally worth it. I booked us an Airbnb and we hightailed it (over two days) from the bay area to Taos.
Back in grad school, I did an internship at the University of New Mexico hospital in Albuquerque- but I was never able to get up to Taos to visit. I love NM and very much wanted to go spend some time in the southern Rockies, plus get some spring skiing in!