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Thread: Total WTF in Albuquerque???

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    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.
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    I've spent a fair bit of time in old and New Mexico. Always felt NM is more like Old Mecxico than the US.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
    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.

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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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