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Funny. The banner ad at the top of the screen is suddenly for some New Mexico something or the other.
“They are watching” lol
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A favorite drive in SE NM coming up from Texas is from the high plains of Artesia west 90 miles to Cloudcroft (9,000 ft). From Cloudcroft you can look down on White Sands and the Organ Mts 50 miles out. Comfortable lodging to be had in town, nice campgrounds with showers in the adjacent Lincoln National Forest. Beautiful 30 mile drive from there across the Mescalero Reservation to Mescalero : Pine forests, high mountain meadows, elk in the road at night. The Mescalero Rez ain’t like many, at least the parts you need to cross, never had a problem there over forty years of visiting. The Silver Lake Campground/RV park on the Rez en route is a quiet and pleasant stay, many repeat clientele, mostly from El Paso. The Mescalero Apache Mission just outside the town of Mescalero is among the nicer churches I’ve seen, 30 years in the making with a real story behind its construction. From there the tourist town of Ruidoso is just over the mountain. Lots of comfortable places to stay or, more upscale, Inn of the Mountain Gods resort on the rez. OTOH if ya wanna camp primitive at 11,000+ feet and get nosebleeds take the Ski Apache road up Sierra Blanca. Other side of Ruidoso lies the Smokey Bear museum and gravesite (allegedly, local rumor has it Indian firefighters hopped the wall and stole the bones one night). Capitan is a quiet town with a nice old motel and a good restaurant. A little ways further down the road is Lincoln and the Billy the Kid museum.
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Best like green or red chili pepper on most everything. I do.
ALB, I have heard, has lots of crime. I would pick you up from the airport, but I misplaced my vehicle.
Santa Fe, to many libs.
Gallup, if the world needed an enema the tube would be inserted at Gurley street.
Las Cruces, see first sentence. Also at the other end of the most boring straightest section of road in the world, see below
Deming, at the other end of the most boring straightest road in the world, see above
T or C, go swimming in Elephant Butte, just be ready to wring sand out of your shorts. Have hot springs but most it is pay by the hour.
Hatch, see first sentence.
Las Alamos, to many gmen
Roswell, besides aliens (the ones from way out there) not much else, OH wait it is south of Billy the Kids supposed grave site on I40
Grants, I think I found my vehicle there
Farmington, not a single thing comes to mind
Silver City, I use a gun smith there
Lordsburg, it sits between Silver and Deming
Edgewood, Jason Andersons hometown
Pie Town, piñon and red chili pie, who came up with that combination?
Quemado, campfire get together, have a uncle in the cemetery, RIP. Has a 1200 yard (at least) range.
Palomas, across the border from a popular dentist and the pink store
Great place to visit! Well there's an obscure reference.
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Best like green or red chili pepper on most everything. I do.
ALB, I have heard, has lots of crime. I would pick you up from the airport, but I misplaced my vehicle.
Santa Fe, to many libs.
Gallup, if the world needed an enema the tube would be inserted at Gurley street.
Las Cruces, see first sentence. Also at the other end of the most boring straightest section of road in the world, see below
Deming, at the other end of the most boring straightest road in the world, see above
T or C, go swimming in Elephant Butte, just be ready to wring sand out of your shorts. Have hot springs but most it is pay by the hour.
Hatch, see first sentence.
Las Alamos, to many gmen
Roswell, besides aliens (the ones from way out there) not much else, OH wait it is south of Billy the Kids supposed grave site on I40
Grants, I think I found my vehicle there
Farmington, not a single thing comes to mind
Silver City, I use a gun smith there
Lordsburg, it sits between Silver and Deming
Edgewood, Jason Andersons hometown
Pie Town, piñon and red chili pie, who came up with that combination?
Quemado, campfire get together, have a uncle in the cemetery, RIP. Has a 1200 yard (at least) range.
Palomas, across the border from a popular dentist and the pink store
Great place to visit! Well there's an obscure reference. Who the hell is Jason Anderson
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Who the hell is Jason Anderson "El Hombre" Motocross racer / supercross champion
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People drive through on I-40, think they've seen New Mexico.
We're I a stranger wanting to explore on wheels, I'd drive all the forest roads in all the mountains I could each day, then find good eats in the small towns at night, have a beer, talk to the locals.
If you like architecture and history, just finding really cool old churches could be a thing, without even bothering with the big, well-known ones. Also some cool Pueblo ruins scattered about.
Where New Mexico truly shines is off the beaten path.
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People drive through on I-40, think they've seen New Mexico.
We're I a stranger wanting to explore on wheels, I'd drive all the forest roads in all the mountains I could each day, then find good eats in the small towns at night, have a beer, talk to the locals.
If you like architecture and history, just finding really cool old churches could be a thing, without even bothering with the big, well-known ones. Also some cool Pueblo ruins scattered about.
Where New Mexico truly shines is off the beaten path. This.
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Most of the state is a chit show. Please tell the rest of California and Texas this so they stop coming here in such high numbers. Politics suck but there is absolutely great food, history, breweries, and outdoor sights.
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Gallup on a Saturday night. I could only imagine. Dodging drunks all night. Ate well at Ella's in Reserve NM many times. Right about Ella's. But, health caused Ella to move to lower elevation. Someone else took it over and kept the name going - was still good food when last I was there - 2022. Right about Gallup, too. Always kept driving through there and through Shiprock as well - Cortez a welcome sight.
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Anybody know of any good places to eat ? Adam's Rib in Chicago has great BBQ... Per Hawkeye
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Albuquerque Atomic museum Sandia peak cable car Santa fe Georgia okeefe Taos pueblo
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Anybody know of any good places to eat ? LRoy, I've heard there are some really great Italian restaurants: Trombino's Saggios Mario's Buca di Beppo M'Tucci's Caruso's Bravo! Scalo II Vicino Piatanzi Farina Alto Luigi's Luca That's about all though.
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October/November maybe..... no rock climbing we be old farts so car riding is all....did the walking around stuff 15 years ago.... Well ok. Lots of things are too late for lots of people. At my wife's request we drove down to Santa Fe to spend part of a day on "museum hill". If you have any interest in that sort of thing there is a bit of SW native art in one of them, a good native history spread in another, and a nice botanical garden to walk around in full of local plants, all in the same complex. Also a "folk art" museum that was not at all to my taste but I did a decent job of pretending to be interested. That whole area was absolutely crammed with boomers so might be a good fit. Herds of them. Later, not far away, we ate excellent red chili sauce on some mexican food.
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Santa Fe was already becoming Disney-fied when I first went there as a kid in the early/mid 70’s. I shudder to think now. I was actually just there, about a month+ ago, but I had just taken a bus down from Ghost Ranch and was catching a train to the ABQ and didn’t have time (or desire) to hit Santa Fe proper.
The Santa Fe/ Taos area got overrun by pretend-artsy (mostly) east coasters in the 70’s and really wrecked it. I don’t need to see some New York heiress parading around in faux Native American garb. Yuck.
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I like the terrain in the Taos area. The mix of people is all right by me, since I consider the self delusions of art hippies to be pretty harmless. Outside town there are more lots crowded with dilapidated RVs and school buses and mobile homes than I care to be around, but also fairly harmless.
Now that reefer is legal in NM I think it has drawn in a lot of longhairs. Lot more here now than I remember from previous visits.
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More practical is there is a ten round limit on magazines, few places off limit. Pretty sure there is no capacity limit in NM. They were trying for 9, but I believe it failed. It is my understanding that the mag limit was stalled in committee and didn't pass. Of course, MLG vowed to bring it back next session.
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Adam's Rib in Chicago has great BBQ... Per Hawkeye Wonder of they still deliver. I was thinking Italian... LRoy,
I've heard there are some really great Italian restaurants:
Trombino's Saggios Mario's Buca di Beppo M'Tucci's Caruso's Bravo! Scalo II Vicino Piatanzi Farina Alto Luigi's Luca
That's about all though. Good list, thanks Anybody ever been to "Pisanos" in Albequerqe ?
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I like the terrain in the Taos area. The mix of people is all right by me, since I consider the self delusions of art hippies to be pretty harmless. Outside town there are more lots crowded with dilapidated RVs and school buses and mobile homes than I care to be around, but also fairly harmless.
Now that reefer is legal in NM I think it has drawn in a lot of longhairs. Lot more here now than I remember from previous visits. I bought legal weed in Cuba a couple months ago and it made my day. After spending my teen years dodging getting popped by cops <grin> it was awesome to be back there and walk into a store like a free man. Hell yeah. Let freedom RING. Was it you mentioning climbing? There’s an area down near Socorro we used to party at called Box Canyon that I guess has become a bit of a thing. I didn’t start climbing until I’d moved to Oregon.
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