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Got some family in ABQ and used to get down there more often. Always enjoyed hiking in the Sandias. We’d usually go up to Bandelier etc. Great food. Would end up eating green chile on every meal. Xmas enchiladas as much as possible. Cinnamon rolls at the Frontier. When I used to drink I always enjoyed La Cumbre and Marble.
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Legendary thread.
"Albuquerque father sentenced for beating (and burning) his two-year-old daughter to death". A teammate responded to that call and nearly beat the dad up.
Stationed in ABQ at Kirtland AFB from the beginning of Covid until winter of 2022. Newcomers brief highlighted theft and murders. Walmart down the street had plenty of execution style murders. Witnessed a drug deal gone bad at the Coronado Center right outside of Barnes & Noble. Effex Nightclub and Canvas had plenty of weekend gun duels. UNM campus was littered with homeless natives when school moved to Zoom. It was always a hoot driving right off base and seeing all the tweakers. Definitely some good neighborhoods, but certainly some rough areas. Made Paramedic clinicals quite the hoot and certainly got hands on with GSWs and stabbings. On the flip side, it was 27 minutes from base to the base of the Sandias for skinning. Ice climbing access in Santa Fe and Los Alamos. I tried my best to escape on the weekends to the rest of the beautiful surrounding area. Wolf Creek or Silverton day trips were money.
Thanks for the info!! The Safeways down in Elk Grove/Sacramento get them from time to time as well, just don’t know when exactly. If we show up and they have them we usually buy a bunch and roast them up at home.Quote:
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It is a small world, my wife was born in Durango and lived in Farmington most of her life. Santa Fe was my home mountain for about a decade.
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My wife reports no chile roasters on the streets of Santa Fe this year. Thanks Biden.
Come on up north, man... lotsa roasters on Federal.Quote:
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? Farmer’s Market and Whole Foods had them. I’m not sure about Big Lots and the others on Cerrillos and St. Michaels (I try to stay east of St. Francis), but if she’s reporting recently, the season’s pretty much over.Quote:
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I forgot to mention I never had a bad meal there and they still have Fuddruckers!
A shame it's gone downhill so much over the years. My aunts and grandparents lived there through the 80s/90s, so I used to visit a lot. Have great memories of going to Sandia Peak, riding the tram, sledding at local parks, Albuquerque Downs, kick ass food, the smell of piñon burning in fireplaces, the list goes on. I don't know if it's my nostalgia-goggles deceiving me, but it seems like it was a pretty great place back in the day. Must've been generally safe as my cousins and I would run around all over the place without supervision and we never came across any trouble. Doesn't mean it wasn't without its share of troubles of course, but perhaps meth really has done a number on that town. :(
Grew up in ABQ. Love it. Love the food, the sun, the hikes in the Sandias, the bike park in the valley. Never feel unsafe, but last time I was there some guys tried to steal my truck from in front of my parents house in broad daylight. Cops didn't even take a report and told me it was the out of state plate. O well, I'll make sure to park in a locked garage next time.
After living on ski towns (yes I consider Flagstaff a mountain/ski town) I can say that I really appreciate places with a bit of grit and realness to them. I can't afford to live in a mountain town anymore. Ski towns to me now feel like a lot of pretentious bull shit tbh. New Mexico has that realness and grit in spades so you gotta watch yer shit when there. I like that about it.
I've spent a fair bit of time in old and New Mexico. Always felt NM is more like Old Mecxico than the US.
Apparently Roswell nearly washed away yesterday. My wife said the t storm in Santa Fe was the worst she's ever experienced and she lived in Santa Fe and Tucson until she was thirty. Not really the season for storms in the SW.
It was a stunning storm in SF. The lightning was amazing - I’ve been here over 30 years and never seen anything like it. And yeah, it’s not thunderstorm season.Quote:
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Albuquerque is the best. My father moved there as a boy and I would visit my grandparents there several times a year.
My grandfather built the pit and many other buildings on campus and several of the hospitals in town . My other grandfather worked at Whitesands and the national atomic museum when he retired. My grandma lived off tramway and copper with her backyard going right into the foothills . She was instrumental in getting a lot of the open spaces proteced to the east of town in the 70s. Rattlesnakes roadrunner quail coyotes and the occasional bear or dear in her backyard.
My uncle had a balloon and was friends with the cutters who pretty much started the whole Fiesta. He also owned a boat dealership that is now the BMW dealer right off the freeway.
Lots of good skiing in NM but very little snow. I remember skiing Sandia peak off tramway as a boy. My father's ski bumming began at taos when he returned from Nam and so naturally we brought our skis when we visited in winter . Santa fe and angel fire are others worth checking out.
My cousin lived in the rough part of town near the base in the "mini war zone " not to be confused with the real " war zone" which has streets with concrete mazes in order to deter drive-bys. Bars on windows are just a thing there even in a lot of nice neighborhoods. We went to the liquor store one night and I saw the most beautiful Hispanic girl I'd ever seen in my life only to see her entire face covered in gang tattoos. Don't be afraid to go to TDs and put 10 dollars on the stage you might get everything you bargained for. The methheads will jump in your yard and the gangbangers will have a shootout but that's why it's Albukrazy . Really a sleepy scene indoors at night but the streets are wild.
There is a lot of history in old Town and the local artists and gallerias are top notch.
Stop by the owl for a burger or go to Blake's lol if you dare. Gardunos was always my favorite but can't go wrong with Cervantes Sadie's little Anita's el pinto or just about anywhere in that town that serves Mexican food. Hiking and biking are endless and the golf is amazing because you can hit the ball an extra 75 or 80 yds because of the altitude and the super hard dirt under the grass. I have a lot of good memories there. Navigating that town before gps was kind of fun . I'd never get lost but if I was supposed to go to Indian school and manaul for example it was trial and error not to mention all the streets look exactly the same strip mall after strip mall all of them with a lottaburger. Yup old route 66 . Americana/ armpit
Haven't been back in at least a dozen years but am actually headed there in a few weeks looking fwd to it.
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