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Mo reservations - New Mexico

Title for this narrative is a take off of my favorite food and travel show called 'No Reservations' where a NY based chef turned documentarian travels the planet in search of culture through food, sampling life through the eyes of the locals between delicious camera worthy bites after bites.

We made a lot of reservations - as in the ones to stay in a hotel and then some - a week spent in the high desert country of New Mexico (NM).  A land of enchantment; scientific curiosity and mystery and reservations - lots of.  As in those tracts or acres of land that is designated Indian territory, the native kinds,  those that lived on said land for hundreds of years before white man set foot.

So betwixt the reservations we drove across the mile high landscape (while Denver CO might boast the title for mile high city - most of NM state is at similar or higher elevations) undulating all the time with high peaks and canyons and caves and dunes, where we found old memories, those from fifteen years ago before the kid was born.  Now with the offspring in tow it was time to regale and explore anew.  That we did.

From nature's best to man made wonders and ongoing quest to discover the next at the nuclear level (many a scientific research including the famous Manhattan Project that resulted in the Nuclear Bomb were conducted in Los Alamos NM) and beyond (alien sightings country in Roswell in southern NM) we explored this vast space in a week also making it down to the border shared with Texas to the east and south with Mexico.


Below are some graphics of this amazing place in the order visited -






Lava flows from millenia ago left this other worldly vista 100 miles south of Albuquerque NM

White Sands so named for the powdery white Calcium Sulfate crystals also called Gypsum


Wind and sand define the 3D art

Bridge to nowhere?  White Sands NP


Just south of the White Sands NP is the White Sands Missile Museum showcasing some artefacts from America's weapons systems developed in this area


On the way back north from Texas we stopped at the highest point in the state in this mountain

End of day 2 - riding into the sunset

Comments

  1. RajendraDecember 1, 2015 at 7:48 AM

    your dunes are white..

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  2. Diamond HeadDecember 1, 2015 at 5:19 PM

    just so... btw you might get Taste of Misal (pav) on yours - we do Missile Test on ours

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