The food! The art! The wine! The pretty views! We were not expecting to love New Mexico as much as we did. We stayed in 5 different places in New Mexico and found that the food (local Mexican food in particular) was very good, the local wines were the best we’ve tasted outside of California, the art scene was very impressive and so were the natural views. New Mexico is also an interesting state by the numbers. Some fun facts: It’s the fifth largest state by area, but only ha

Enjoyed in Roswell, NM - can you tell?!? In our continuing mission to find good wines outside of California, we finally found some in an unexpected place - New Mexico! Considering the whole state is at mid- to high elevation and it’s fairly dry, we were quite surprised. We tasted wines in the Santa Fe/Taos area and in the Roswell area and learned that both sets of wineries grew some of their grapes locally, but a lot of it was also sourced from Demming, a town in the south w

Just as we serendipitously found ourselves on Route 66 in the spring, we magically (unintentionally?) found ourselves following the old Santa Fe Trail this fall - all the way from Kansas City to Santa Fe. We learned that between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was an important commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was primarily important because ranchers could herd their cows from the southern ranches to much higher paying customers further n

We really could not have driven through the southern part of New Mexico without stopping in Roswell. As Craig said, we had to get to the bottom of the Alien Landing thing. Yeah, we did ALL the touristy stuff. Why wouldn’t we? It all started with the Roswell Welcome sign and the official mural (above): Everything in Roswell is alien themed, and I do mean everything - did you see the Dunkin’ and McDonald’s photos in the We ♥️ New Mexico post? How about the street lamps? Here