Category Archives: New Mexico

(Near) Death Becomes Her

Two days ago, it rained from 5a and didn’t stop until 3a the following morning. EXCEPT! – for the brief hour around 5p, when the sun came out long enough to snap two pictures of the rainbow it spread across the eastern horizon. Not knowing it was going to storm – and I mean STORM […]

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Southern Points, Pt. 2

On Sunday was a glorious, riotous orange and yellow sunrise that lit the east side of the Organs up like neon highlighter. The drive away down the Aguirre Springs road was made begrudgingly, but the border control checkpoint and White Sands were waiting. White Sands is best in the morning or evening, when it is […]

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Southern Points, Pt. 1

After the spectacular failure of our first camping trip south, I decided to do it again the next weekend and revisit everything I felt we had missed. The plan was to slowly meander back down NM-380 to Carrizozo, camp Friday night at Valley of Fires State Park, wake up to explore the area around Carrizozo, […]

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Breather

San Fidel, your landscape never bores me. The storm over Mt. Taylor moved east towards Laguna and exploded into over a dozen rainbows. I saw so many different ones in less than half an hour. Coming up: solo trip south and the Outer Banks. Be well. – SAWK

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Weekend South, Pt. 2 – Failure Renewed (Sunday)

In other parts of the country, the month of September means school, changing leaves, or possibly the observation of Teddy Bear Day (a real thing). To New Mexicans, however, September is synonymous with one thing: CHILE. Red, green, fresh, fired, hot, mild, however you like it. Drive across the Rio Grande bridge in Albuquerque with […]

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