Oct 30th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Route 66, the legendary roadway of American lore, may be no more, but ghostly vestiges of its existence still remain. Take the lovely stretch of retro hotel signs in Albuquerque New Mexico - part of the old Route 66 route. Just off the University of New Mexico campus, you'll find a scattered collection of these aging neon beauties, sprouting like weeds among discount furniture stores, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the Day - Route 66 Signage
Oct 30th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Route 66, the legendary roadway of American lore, may be no more, but ghostly vestiges of its existence still remain. Take the lovely stretch of retro hotel signs in Albuquerque New Mexico - part of the old Route 66 route. Just off the University of New Mexico campus, you'll find a scattered collection of these aging neon beauties, sprouting like weeds among discount furniture stores, ...Getting high at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Sep 30th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
New England may be the standard-bearer for fall travel, but New Mexico is an equally spectacular destination to spend the season. And perhaps there is no better way to usher in autumn than with necks craned skyward, under a dawn Albuquerque sky slowly filling up with several hundred illuminated hot air balloons.
Now in its 40th year, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta kicks off ...TSA snags child's Christmas present: Think like TSA when packing your carry on
Dec 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Think like TSA when you pack your Christmas presents for your flight home. If you don't think like TSA, your child may end up losing a gift. It almost happened to us.
In the past, I have said goodbye to a full bottle of suntan lotion and a corkscrew with a knife attached. Those were not fun to lose, but these were items that ended up in our carry on bag as we hurried. I've known about snow ...Southwest and FedEx planes bump wings
Dec 2nd, 2009 at 3:30PM: A Southwest Airlines jet bound for Albuquerque clipped wings with a Fed Ex cargo jet Sunday at the Salt Lake City Airport. A spokesperson for Southwest said the jet was about to pull back from the gate when it was bumped by the cargo plane. The pilots had not yet started the engine when they felt the "jolt" of the impact, which sliced off a 6-foot section of the plane's wingtip.
No one was ...Gadlinks for Friday 11.27.2009
Nov 27th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
It's Black Friday! I hope you all survived the mall madness. We can look forward to more Christmas lights and even more shopping deals through the weekend and then Cyber Monday! It will be an exciting few days for sure. Here are a few exciting travel reads from across the web, too.
One of my best friends is living in Albuquerque and I think this is a great guide to the city. [via Intelligent ...Understanding the wild west: Visiting a Native American pueblo
Nov 16th, 2009 at 2:30PM:
New Mexico, like much of the western US, has long been home to many Native American tribes who shaped the history of the region every bit as much as the white settlers and cowboys who came after them.
Around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos, you can't drive more than a dozen or so miles before you see another sign pointing the way to a Pueblo that is open to visitors. Each of these can ...Nativo Lodge offers New Mexico State Fair Package
Sep 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: New Mexico's State Fair kicked off Friday and to celebrate, the Nativo Lodge is offering a special package. For $129 per night, families of up to four people will receive accommodations (with one king or two double beds), daily breakfast, four one-day passes to the Fair, and one parking pass.
The Nativo Lodge offers spacious rooms decorated with Native American touches. The property features a ...Drag out summer after Labor Day: 12 ideas
Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:30AM: So what if it's almost the end of August, kids are heading back to school in droves, and Labor Day is almost here?
There are ways to drag out that summer feeling with easy-going, inexpensive travel. Pick places that you haven't been to before to heighten a sense of adventure -- something that summers are made for.
Here are 12 ideas to get you started into dragging out summer--at least until the ...Naked guy forces Albuquerque landing
Jul 2nd, 2009 at 12:00PM: Keith Wright, a New Yorker (damn!) felt restricted by more than just cramped airline seating today. On a flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles, he ditched his clothing and did not respond (vocally, at least) to flight attendant requests to put them back on. The mile-high nudist also wouldn't accept the cover of a blanket.
As a result of Wright's defiance, the US Airways flight was diverted to ...10 places to enjoy May flowers for free
May 29th, 2009 at 9:30AM: When my daughter was about five we went on a wildflower hike for Mother's Day. The hike was free and I remember the day's loveliness even though this was over 10 years ago. May's flowers are one of life's great pleasures. It's a visual feast with the world's locations offering their own special palate.
With this weekend being the last chance to see May flowers as in "April showers bring May ...Chattanooga, Portsmouth among top art destinations in the U.S.
Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who thought that Tennessee and New Hampshire would be some of the top towns in the country for art lovers. AmericanStyle magazine just issued the results of its twelfth annual arts destinations poll. Some spots are predictable. Others, like Chattanooga, will just blow your mind. This is the first year Chattanooga made the list, shooting all the way up to second in the mid-sized city category. If ...Budget Travel: Albuquerque
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 11:30AM:
Summary: Albuquerque, founded in 1706 by a group of Spanish colonists on the banks of the Rio Grande, has grown into a sprawling southwestern city that creeps up the Sandia and Manzano Mountains to the east and out onto the mesa to the west where it meets the National Petroglyph Park Monument. On the southern end, Isleta Pueblo halts it's sprawl, and to the north is Sandia Pueblo.
If you drive ...Tony Hillerman's Four Corners region of the U.S. and an encounter
Oct 28th, 2008 at 10:45PM: "An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place." --Tony Hillerman
Yesterday, when I read that Tony Hillerman died, I flashed back to one afternoon when I went as a guest to a writer's group meeting at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As I introduced myself, was I surprised when I shook one man's hand, and his warm ...Sex and the City: You can catch up with a craze in the modern age
May 31st, 2008 at 10:30AM: Sex and the City was the hot topic the summer between our two years living in Taiwan and our two years in India. I saw it once at a friend's house when I stopped over in Albuquerque for a few days visit. I liked it, but nothing I couldn't live without. I was jet-lagged anyway. Two years later, I saw one more episode. Friends we were visiting in Pochetello, Idaho had TiVoed it---something else that ...Black velvet painting museum
May 20th, 2008 at 9:00AM: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, it's not uncommon to see people selling velvet paintings from a parking lot stand. Whenever I passed by these makeshift displays, I always wondered who might buy such paintings. I have an answer. There is one couple in Portland, Oregon who has bought more than 1,000 over the past ten years.
Collecting velvet paintings is an endeavor they take seriously and have a ...Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day: Celebration Worthy of Note
Dec 13th, 2007 at 6:00PM: Here's a heads up for next year since the day has passed. Still, since this is a month of holidays, I didn't want this one to go unmentioned. December 12th is one of the most important holy days in Mexico and much of Latin America. The Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day is when people honor Mexico's patron saint, the Lady of Guadalupe. She appeared in the 16th century to Juan Diego, a poor farmer in ...Tour the U.S. on horse and feel better about the world
Nov 16th, 2007 at 1:00PM: The story about Bill Inman, a rancher who is traveling across the U.S. on his faithful steed, Blackie, caught my attention. Inman's stated purposeof this journey is to find out the good things about the America amid the bad news. The war in Iraq, the housing market bubble burst, the gas prices, etc., etc., etc. All of this what's wrong news can make people feel downright crabby. Anyway, Inman ...Mexico and borders: No longer a speedy crossing
Oct 21st, 2007 at 3:45PM: When I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, heading to Juarez, Mexico for the day was a fun day outing. I didn't do it often, but at least twice a year we'd walk across the border at El Paso, Texas, have lunch, shop for presents at the market, buy a bottle of Kahlúa and Jose Cuervo and head home. Going across the border was a snap--quick. There was nothing to it. I found the same thing when I ...Unicef Stores in the U.S.: Going, Going, Gone?
Jun 30th, 2007 at 9:55PM: When I've describe my house, I often say that it looks like a Unicef store without the price tags. If you've ever been to a Unicef store, you'll know what I mean. They are filled with high quality crafts from around the world and the profits go towards Unicef's humanitarian projects. Or perhaps, I should say, the stores were filled with quality crafts.
I'm not saying that all the craft items in ...Albuquerque Turns 300
Apr 18th, 2006 at 12:01PM: New Mexico residents we hardly knew ye. If youda
asked me how old the city of Albuquerque is, I might have said a hundred or so years. I'm picturing cowboys roaming the
range, settlers in Conestoga wagons. Well, all that is true, but it all goes back much further than a century.
Albuquerque, it turns out, is gong to be 300 years old in just a few days, and you, dear friends, can go there and ...
