Rio Grande River Gorge outside Taos, New Mexico: August 5, 2015

Instead of carving initials into a tree, sweethearts scratch initials or full names into locks and attach them to the bridge railing above the Rio Grande River gorge. 

The river runs about 700 feet below the bridge.

In the spring, thrill seekers raft the river rapids.  Nobody was on the river when we were there.  I think they would have looked very, very tiny, so far below us.

The Rio Grande flows along part of the Texas/New Mexico border. Due to irrigation and dams, the river no longer reaches the Gulf of Mexico.

Papa Tom about halfway across the bridge at the gorge.