Pepe’s Place is a beautiful 3 bedroom, 3 bath, adobe style rental home with amazing Taos mountain views, kiva fireplace and outdoor hot tub, with an impressive repeat customer base. I feel so very fortunate to have this home in the RossLynn Reservations line-up to offer to my guests. It’s name was taken from a painting that the owners’ mother, Cherie, created and hung in the kitchen over the breakfast table area. The whole house sparkles with her colorful, original, fine art that has been called “entertainment for the mind and soul”; an absolutely perfect fit for a Taos home. The first known appearance of Rocky, a friendly neighborhood dog, was a phone call to my office shortly after 4pm check- in time from a mystified yet amused guest. “Terry, we just finished unloading the car and there he was! This big, white dog just sitting on the couch! We don’t know where he came from or how he got in!” Well, over the next few weeks we started to put all the puzzle pieces of Rocky the magic dog (or “Rocket Dog, as we nick named him) together. It seems that Rocky had the good sniff-sense of when guests would arrive and take advantage of all the hub-bub and confusion of car unloading and the front door ajar to quickly move into couch position. We actually had to start forewarning unknowing guests of the loving, big, white furry, couch sitting visitor.
One day while getting the house ready for guests, I noticed one of Cherie’s paintings hanging on the master bedroom wall that had a white dog in it; funny that I never noticed that before. Could it be that Nick’s family had known about Rocky’s appearances all along and never thought to mention it to me? When I asked Cherie she told me that many of the inspirations for her work came from dreams, and that was also true of this source of origin. After having lived in mystical, magical, mysterious Taos all these years, this kind of story was not unusual, but Cherie lived in River Grove, Illinois! 
