New Mexico

Clear water, rising steam, and a road trip with a reward at the end. That is a pretty…

By Miles Croft · Oct 1

Road trips are better when there is room for one completely unplanned stop. A small thrift store can…

By Cassie Holloway · Oct 1

There is something deeply satisfying about a pizza slice that can stand tall without folding in half. Detroit-style…

By Cassie Holloway · Oct 1

Corn husks piled in a paper sack on a counter were the first clue that the plain little…

By Spencer Lyle · Oct 1

Koi the color of ripe chile peppers came drifting straight toward my shoes, mouths open, as if they…

By Fiona Gates · Oct 1

Picture a small pond shining like a coin in the middle of wide eastern plains. Tall cottonwoods lean…

By Miles Croft · Sep 30

Red chile on one half, green on the other, and a stranger behind the counter asking about your…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 30

Cottonwoods turn the color of butter for only a few short weeks in New Mexico, and the best…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 30

The paper plate looks almost comically small once a slice lands on it. That is part of the…

By Miles Croft · Sep 30

A good fabric store does more than fill shelves. It starts giving you project ideas before you have…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 30

A bakery run outside Albuquerque might sound like a lot of effort until the road opens up and…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 30

Warm chips arrived in a basket before I had even settled into my chair, and the salsa beside…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 30

Steam fogged my glasses before the first spoonful ever reached my mouth, and I knew the plain little…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 30

Some museums are easy to breeze through. This is not one of them. Near the Santa Fe Plaza,…

By Miles Croft · Sep 29

A skateboard deck painted by an Apache artist was the last thing I expected to see on a…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 29

A road sign caught my eye during a drive through central New Mexico, and I almost passed it…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 29

A small mountain town can change the whole picture of retirement. Traffic fades and errands get shorter, while…

By Miles Croft · Sep 29

Picture a basket of warm sopapillas landing on a table beside a wood stove, with chile steam drifting…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 29

Rattlesnake season adds a little extra suspense to an otherwise ordinary trail day. In New Mexico, these reptiles…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 29

My first real taste of New Mexico came not from a fancy plate but from a puffy pillow…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 29

A milkshake should not need its own backup tin, yet here it arrives with one, sweating and full…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 29

Centuries ago, families carved homes directly into pale volcanic cliffs in what is now northern New Mexico. Those…

By Miles Croft · Sep 28

Six in the morning, a car line already snaking toward a tiny pay shed, and a tortilla so…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 28

Drums were the first thing I heard, drifting across a parking lot I almost drove past on my…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 28

Picture a flaky croissant resting next to a tiny cup of strong Italian coffee. Now imagine finding that…

By Miles Croft · Sep 28

October brings a very different kind of energy to one corner of New Mexico. By afternoon, the fairgrounds…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 28

Fresh tortillas have a way of making a meal feel more exciting before the first bite even lands.…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 28

My stomach was growling on a routine errand run when a plain little counter shop finally lured me…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 28

Twenty-nine point nine seconds sounds like nothing until you are gripping a steering wheel and chasing it lap…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 28

Some of Alamogordo’s most interesting meals are hiding behind storefronts you could easily pass without a second look.…

By Miles Croft · Sep 27

My first real bite of green chile in New Mexico didn’t happen at a fancy table with white…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 27

Broken windows and towering brick walls might make you wonder if you took a wrong turn somewhere in…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 27

A quick antique stop can get out of hand fast when the store has three full floors to…

By Miles Croft · Sep 27

Roswell has no shortage of places that look interesting before you step inside, but this restaurant takes a…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 27

Tourists can spend days chasing Santa Fe’s headline restaurants and still miss the small places locals use for…

By Cassie Holloway · Sep 27

Imagine walking into a room where the walls practically hum with color, and a stranger behind the counter…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 27

Craving a cannoli so fresh the shell still crackles when you bite it? New Mexico might not be…

By Fiona Gates · Sep 27

A secondhand shop gets interesting the moment you stop hunting for one specific thing. Suddenly the old lamp…

By Miles Croft · Sep 26

A wooden loom clacking somewhere in the back of a quiet shop is not the sound most road-trippers…

By Spencer Lyle · Sep 26