Let’s go back to Barelas. My friend Sam Pillsbury and I went down for breakfast at the legendary Barelas Coffee House. He, being vegetarian, had pancakes. I had the basic huevos rancheros. Apparently Barack Obama had the DeLuxe huevos rancheros when he ate here. That’s where they sneak a couple Read more…
ARTESIA PUBLIC LIBRARY—It was a two-part move for the mural. The first leg of the trip was to an airport hanger in Midland, Texas. There the mural would wait for about a year in a climate controlled setting until the Artesia library construction could be completed. However, there was a Read more…
This is the story of how Artesia, New Mexico got a priceless mural done by Peter Hurd…how the mural came to be, its removal from a building slated for destruction, the multi-year journey from Houston to Artesia, and how this gigantic yet extremely fragile art piece was inserted into a Read more…
11TH ST. & MAIN, ROSWELL—Sometimes it’s hard to find a place to visit where there actually is something for everybody. Roswell is just such a place. What excites the kid inside all of us more than little green spacemen crash landing here on earth? Once, on a train from Chicago Read more…
EKLUND HOTEL, CLAYTON—It would not be true to say that the Rockabilly 4-day party chased me out of Tucumcari. No, I left of my own accord…although every room in the three motels I looked at were rented for the entire weekend. Sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, there was plenty Read more…
ROUTE 66, ALBUQUERQUE—About two dozen of us took a tour of one of Albuquerque’s properties last weekend. Purchased in 2010, the Route 66 Open Space, as it is officially known, consists of 66 acres at the eastern edge of town as it enters Tijeras Canyon. Old Route 66 passes right Read more…
LAS VEGAS, NM—It was still raining in Pecos when we awoke at the monastery. The Benedictine brothers had prepared a nice breakfast of some kind of egg and spinach casserole and melon slices. Mike and I ate with a couple of nuns visiting from Texas. Everybody knew the weather was Read more…
NOB HILL—Today was the first day that I woke up and my legs felt tired. I believe it must have been that really difficult morning yesterday with the wind and hills. But all in all, I had expected to feel much worse at this point. We had been on the Read more…
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Radio and TV star Ralph Edwards was the hit of Truth or Consequences when he first started coming to T or C, previously known as Hot Springs, in 1950. It was part of a promotion he dreamed up. He said he would broadcast an episode of his hit Read more…
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM—I had no idea what we would find if we went looking for the old Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital. I had seen pictures of the patients and life at the hospital. But was the building still there? Would the crushing weight of thousands of sick kids hang Read more…