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12/31/2024

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Nothing says fall like a big bowl of green chile pork posole! If you grew up in the Southwest then you are most likely familiar with this spicy and savory dish that soothes the soul. This is a simple dish that can be made in a slow cooker before you head off to work, or it can be quickly made once y...

Chama is a small, scenic town in northern New Mexico, about 7 miles south of the Colorado border. It gets a lot of traff...
12/30/2024

Chama is a small, scenic town in northern New Mexico, about 7 miles south of the Colorado border. It gets a lot of traffic for a town with 1000 residents due to the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Continental Divide Trail.

Chama is a small, scenic town in northern New Mexico, about 7 miles south of the Colorado border. Named after the Rio Chama, a tributary of the Rio Grande, Chama was originally founded as a Spanish settlement in the 1860s, established within the boundaries of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant. Chama an...

❤️ Guacamole
12/30/2024

❤️ Guacamole

This isn't a boring, squished up avocados with salt. If you have to share this guacamole with more than a couple of people, you may want to double the recipe.

The original church, San Francisco Xavier, was built in 1706 at a different location on the plaza than the current chape...
12/30/2024

The original church, San Francisco Xavier, was built in 1706 at a different location on the plaza than the current chapel. Flooding destroyed the church in 1792. Residents of Tome and Valencia built San Felipe de Neri to replace San Francisco Xavier in 1793.

San Felipe de Neri is a Catholic church in Old Town Albuquerque. It was built in 1793 to replace the San Francisco Xavier church.

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center | Pueblo Voices: Connections to the Land & to the Ancestors
12/30/2024

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center | Pueblo Voices: Connections to the Land & to the Ancestors

Pueblo Indians' historical perspectives are shaped by their deep cultural heritage, kept alive through oral tradition. Archaeologists' understanding of Puebl...

North of Socorro 👍
12/30/2024

North of Socorro 👍

A website to highlight great tent camping spots in New Mexico.

Great views of the gorge from this trail. 🤩
12/30/2024

Great views of the gorge from this trail. 🤩

Rio Grande del Norte National Monument has some nice hikes along its rim and down to the riverbed. This hike starts on the west side of the impressive Rio Grande Bridge and heads south. This could have been a really nice walk along the west rim of

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12/30/2024

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Exploring culture through food. Find fun, creative recipes inspired by books, movies, television, travel & people at "All Roads Lead to the Kitchen"!

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12/30/2024

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Mavic air drone clips edited with sound effects and color corrections.

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12/29/2024

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The Sky Railway offers riders adventure train experiences between Santa Fe and Lamy.

White Sands National Park | Gypsum sand is rare, because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve gypsum and ...
12/29/2024

White Sands National Park | Gypsum sand is rare, because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve gypsum and the water solution created would drain to the ocean. However, when the Rio Grande Rift formed, the Tularosa Basin was isolated, cut off from the sea and ocean, with water runoff from the mountains pooling in the basin, forming a shallow, 1600-square mile lake that we now call Lake Otero. During the last ice age, 12,000-24,000 years ago, the climate was wetter. Rain and snow melt was abundant, washing vast quantities of gypsum from the mountains into the basin. Lake Otero evaporated when the last ice age ended, becoming a dry lake bed, also known as a playa. The bed of the lake contained large amounts of selenite, the crystalline form of gypsum.

White Sands is the largest gypsum dunefield in the world, consisting of 275 square miles of gypsum dunes engulfing the Tularosa Basin.

Mount Taylor is a big stratovolcano, overlooking lava flows created by other, smaller volcanoes in El Malpais, south of ...
12/29/2024

Mount Taylor is a big stratovolcano, overlooking lava flows created by other, smaller volcanoes in El Malpais, south of Grants, and the Rio Puerco valley.

The turn off is on the road to Sierra Blanca (Sacramento Mountains)
12/29/2024

The turn off is on the road to Sierra Blanca (Sacramento Mountains)

Took a day trip through Ruidoso and found this spot

Chile Con Queso recipe 😋
12/29/2024

Chile Con Queso recipe 😋

Chile con queso is a spicy, tasty dip for chips or vegetables. Use more/hotter green chile to spice it up to your desired heat level.

San Miguel Mission Chapel is considered the oldest church still in use in the United States. It is located in Socorro, N...
12/29/2024

San Miguel Mission Chapel is considered the oldest church still in use in the United States. It is located in Socorro, New Mexico.

If you enjoy nature, mountains, and open spaces, New Mexico is ideal. 😁
12/29/2024

If you enjoy nature, mountains, and open spaces, New Mexico is ideal. 😁

12/29/2024

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad

Earl's in Gallup 😋Visit Gallup
12/29/2024

Earl's in Gallup 😋

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Long, open road. Highway 60, crossing the plains of San Agustin, between Magdalena and Datil.

As an outlier community, Aztec Ruins' construction is typical of building styles at Chaco Canyon & Mesa Verde. Whereas Aztec may have been established as an agricultural or trading community between the two, the village became independent. It survived the downfall of both by more than a century. After a couple of centuries of prosperity on the banks of the Animas, the people living in this community migrated around 1300 A.D, which coincides with the depopulation of the Four Corners region.

Heading back to Gallup for Red Rock Balloon Rally December 6 - 8. Looking forward to it.

There are a lot of cranes, ducks, geese (and more) at Bosque del Apache between November and February.

Thankful for New Mexico mesas, mountains, and skies.

This was a phenomenal year for Balloon Fiesta, with over 500 balloons participating, including over 400 standard size balloons and 106 Special shape balloons this year (16 new ones). I still haven't finished going through all of the photos and video clips.

Last day of Balloon Fiesta 2024. One more splash & dash.

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