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The walls here are the colour of dry clay . It is a city in New Mexico , in the southwest of the United States . Many buildings look like adobe . Adobe is mud and straw , pressed into bricks and dried in the sun . New buildings in the historic centre must look this way . Your room has a wooden ceiling beam . It is as wide as your arm . The beam is dark with age . It is cold under your feet at sunrise . Outside , there is a small courtyard . It holds one terracotta pot . A mid - range adobe hotel in the historic district costs around $ 150 to $ 250 a night . That price is for shoulder season , in spring or autumn . In the afternoon , you sit still . The thick walls hold the cool of the morning . Outside , the light changes slowly . The pale tan walls turn deep amber . You watch the colour shift , slow as a tide .
