Eat Around the World at El Vado Motel
EL VADO MOTEL’S SUNNY COURTYARD is hopping on this Sunday afternoon. A happy crowd of motel guests, local families, friends, and couples toting leashed dogs hang out beneath umbrella-shaded tables…
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Posts From: April 2023
The History of Carlsbad Caverns
AN APACHE STORY TELLS OF A MEDICINE MAN who ventured into the caverns and was never seen again. Every year, tribal members would visit the cave around the anniversary of his disappearance and leave…
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Take a Spin to See the Roto-Sphere
WHEN IT WORKED, the Roto-Sphere above the El Comedor de Anayas restaurant, in Moriarty, lured hungry motorists off I-40 and onto Old Route 66. Neon lights lined its 16 colorful spikes. The ball they…
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Carving Out Legacies
ONCE THERE WAS A FATHER FROM MEXICO, a skilled curandero who could find powerful medicine in the most barren deserts. He moved to Arizona with his wife in the first few years of the 20th century, but…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Go with the flow. SITE Santa Fe’s newest exhibition Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters examines the role the essential element plays in the world and especially in the desert…
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Get Settled in New Mexico
RICHARD JOY VISITED NEW MEXICO only once before moving into Del Webb at Alegria, a 55-plus community in Bernalillo. That first trip was barely a pit stop in Albuquerque’s Old Town during a move from…
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Your Carlsbad Travel Guide
Get out. Learn more about the Chihuahuan Desert’s wildlife at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park, in Carlsbad. A 1.3-mile hike threads among yucca, agave, shrubs, and trees, through an…
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Give These Desert Hikes a Try
MORE THAN 50 MILES OF TRAILS access some 33,000 acres of the park that are designated wilderness areas, where you can take in views of the Guadalupe Mountains rolling on into Texas, explore canyons…
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Buck Dunton’s Western Soul
THE DOWNCAST DEMEANOR of William Herbert “Buck” Dunton’s offspring in his painting My Children (circa 1922), created shortly after their parents divorced, lends it an elegiac tone. Despite the somber…
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Kenyan Beef Kebabs
Read more: This recipe originally appeared in "Jambo Joy" by Johnny Vee…
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