So I ran a little contest to give away a few copies of my Moon Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque guidebook. To win, you had to guess how many miles I drove recently on my New Mexico research trip. The answer: 3,284 miles Uh, that’s a lot. And probably a third of those miles were [...]
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The wild West of yore is all about trains and cows and gunslingers and dudes in hats. Today, cattle still roam the range in New Mexico, and folks wear pistols on their hips and hats indoors. But the trains have, for the most part, gone. Sure, there’s the venerable Super Chief, Amtrak’s service that plods [...]
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I admit, I was instilled with some serious anti-Texan prejudices as a child. The flatlanders came to New Mexico to ski (“If God had meant for Texans to ski,” went one typical grumble, “He would’ve given them their own mountains”). They set up resort enclaves in Ruidoso and Red River, and decorated them with chainsaw-carved [...]
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Southern New Mexico is a little alien to me because they do weird things with their chile down there, and they engage in businesses that you don’t see that much of up north, such as oil drilling, UFO spotting and cattle ranching. I was driving around Roswell, headquarters of “alien” in southern NM, when I [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
*Co-author of cookbook Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party
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