Meet This Legendary Balloon Pilot
JIM AHERN’S BALLOONING CAREER was peaking right as things were starting to take off. “I was in the airline business before ballooning,” Ahern recalls. “Back in 1978, ballooning was just a hobby.” At…
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Balloon Fiesta Takes You Up, Up, and Away
AT 5 A.M., DARKNESS HANGS LIKE A CURTAIN over Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta Park, hiding the riot of colors, shapes, and sounds about to be unveiled in the morning light. For now, you and the thousands…
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What to Do in Cloudcroft
WHETHER YOU LOOK EAST from the white sands of the Tularosa Basin or west from the high plains of Roswell and Artesia, south-central New Mexico’s soaring, pine-studded mountains cut a majestic—and…
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Let’s Go Jump in a Lake
WATER MAY NOT BE EXACTLY what you came to the desert to find—especially large bodies of it. But that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t stand on the brakes if such a mirage appeared in the blinding light of…
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New Mexico River Cabins
THE TEMPS ARE FALLING, the mountains are turning gold, the trout are running, the crowds have ebbed. There’s no better time to rent a cabin near one of New Mexico’s many luminous rivers. Here are five…
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