New Mexico

What an interesting State New Mexico is

Tall snow-capped mountains, blistering heat and desert, deep caverns, "aliens",

And gushing rushing rivers

We have driven through this state, and gone to this state for visits

Either way New Mexico is a neat beautiful state with friendly people

From Clayton to Cimarron on to Eagle Nest and Angel Fire then over to Taos

The Viet Nam Memorial is stunning and the valley breath-taking

We have driven this more than a few times and seen fishermen

With huge strings of fresh trout

From Taos to Santa Fe through so much history and the live markets

With Native Americans selling incredible things

We have dearest of friends living in Belen just south of Albuquerque

The Pueblo in Taos is friendly if expensive and again we have visited many times including taking our grandson there

 There is a fee to get in and a fee to take pictures at the Pueblo

There is a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream store that we usually get a Daiquiri Ice cream treat

Going north out of Taos we have seen wild horse herds and driven in snow

We went to a 4th of July pancake festival in Santa Fe once with our children and

then horse racing at the local track

Everybody won something and it was a glorious day

We have walked the streets of Santa Fe and visited

the famous Church there with the spiral staircase

We also saw an amazing performer at the Kitty Kat Club many years ago

when we were very young

We have eaten on the 4th of July at the expensive restaurant on the top of Sandia Peak

There was of course great food and even greater views of fireworks

The gondola ride up and down was neat and

we saw a huge deer with a big rack on the way up once

We have driven all across I-40 many times both ways and always stopping in Gallup

Our daughter spent a whole year as a missionary in Thoreau at St. Bonaventure's

We interviewed for a position there but

we discovered that the priest was really not on the up and up

Still we visited a Hogan and took water to Native Americans, was quite an experience

We have driven I-25 south to Las Cruces and we have driven

The back way into Silver City through Hillsboro

White Sands is an amazing place and we have climbed all up and down them often

We had a memorable drive to El Paso from Alamogordo once when we were very young and

Linda was pulled over going well over 100 miles an hour

I was stationed at Fort Bliss and we were rushing back to make a deadline with our newborn

daughter in the rear seat and no she did not get a ticket

Carlsbad Caverns is one of our very favorite places and again we have been there many times

Carlsbad Caverns is special to us!

The Alien Landings in Roswell remain one of our most talked about subjects and

Linda lived in Roswell for over a year

I play Strat Baseball with a young friend whose family are in the jewellery business in

Roswell and was a summer cowboy

Her dad was stationed there and he would take her up in a small airplane

In Chama we took a narrow gage steam powered train ride that was very much

An old west experience

As a young married couple with no money we would drive from Fort Bliss to Cloudcroft to

get up in the snow covered mountains

Ruidoso was a beautiful place we liked just to drive and see

Once with our children we took a back gravel road

Through the Mescalero Apache Reservation

It was so narrow with steep drop offs and nowhere to turn around but we made it

It remains one of our fond memories

Such a beautiful and diverse State is New Mexico

It is a place we would love to go visit again