The first weekend of Balloon Fiesta, I went up Sandia Crest in the freezing dawn to photograph the balloons lighting up almost a mile below. As the sunrise spread up over the mountain, the darkness and shadow of the peak slowly receded, lighting up first the edge of the city and then the balloons. In […]
At the end of September, a bunch of my cousins and my sister and I got together in Corolla, North Carolina to relive the old Outer Banks vacations of our childhood. We rented a house two blocks from the beach, awoke for the sunrise, played in the waves, and laid in the sand every day, […]
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 […]
Last Saturday we went south, planning to camp outside of Cloudcroft and then spend Sunday at the Hatch Chile Festival, our first camping trip since March. Everything went awry. At 11a, when our key lime Escape was still sitting at the base of the trailer steps, I knew it would be a trying weekend. We […]
