Travel the Santa Fe Loop of Route 66
SEATED AT THE PLAZA CAFE soda fountain, it’s easy to picture what Santa Fe may have looked like between 1926 and 1937, when Route 66 ran through the heart of the capital city. After 1937, however, a…
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Cruise Route 66 Through Central New Mexico
THE SMALL TOWNS AND BRIGHT CITIES strung together by historic Route 66 in central New Mexico still harbor gems of yesteryear that flash from the roadside. Some Route 66 enthusiasts argue that one of…
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Step into Luxury at the Five Graces
I’M MESMERIZED BY A SWIRL of colors in the lobby of the Inn of the Five Graces. Luxurious tapestries, antique carpets, sumptuous fabric-covered sofas and pillows, and geometric-patterned tiles fill…
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La Posta Celebrates 85 Years
LA POSTA DE MESILLA, the venerable southern New Mexico restaurant, looks like Christmas all year long, with its colorful string lights and steaming plates blanketed in red and green chile on every…
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Remembering Dawson
The road to Dawson is five miles of hard-packed red dirt that runs along the Vermejo River into a network of foothills and canyons. If you’re lucky enough to travel there in summer, you’ll turn off US…
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Barelas Is for the Gente
A CALICO CAT LOUNGES ON THE PATIO in front of La Mexicana Tortilla Co. Cleo and her two cohorts are street cats in their golden years that the crew of the historic Albuquerque establishment treat with…
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Time Travel in Tucumcari
STAND ON ANY CORNER IN TUCUMCARI and history unfurls in every direction—from the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic period to the city’s railroad heyday and the neon-lit allure of its Route 66 era. “The area…
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