This turned out to be one of the places in my starting-country with the most World Trees (which I have now realized only appear to be in ruins; stumps).
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Table of Contents:
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
- Childhood Pass (Images Begin)
- Nice Hotels
- Nicest Neighborhoods
- Vegan Restaurants & Shops
- Ancient Ruins
- Other Sites
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Phase 1:
My first passes through this state were through its northeastern corner on my way to link up with a hot British ski-bunny in Colorado, and then along the Mexican border as I made my way through Las Cruces to the boulders-mountain pass to San Diego. At that time, there was no Spaceport in Las Cruces, and I instead encountered and dealt with what seemed like experimental portals set up across a few stretches of the middle-of-nowhere highway interchanges. I distinctly remember at least one potential time-warp event that cost me a couple hours of travel time, and a lot of gas I could barely afford.
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Phase 2:
Once the attacks simmered down and I was free to explore entirely on my own, I returned here in my monster Jeep from the north; coming west across the Great Plains from the farm Earthship I’d just finished helping build from the ground up, and then driving down from a hidden mansion double-Earthship being built by gypsy elves in one of the Colorado canyons below the rumored stargate facility of NORAD. This was the season of Earthships, it turned out, because I ended up living at a new one, visiting a secret giant one en route to a neighborhood of them, and then finding every conceivable example of their subsets on a plateau overlooking Taos. I even spotted the visionary who invented them decades ago; we happened to pick the same Mexican restaurant at the same unlikely time between rushes in the afternoon when absolutely no one other than the two of us and two waitresses were there.
Earthships, I might add, are one of the most brilliant eco-friendly and recycling-based architectural styles of all time, and they were pioneered by the great Mike Reynolds. In case you’re wondering, the original and biggest community of them, including a few reserved as show-homes and hotels, is at 2 Earthship Way, Tres Piedras, NM 87577. The Earthship Academy is now also there, and it is well worth your time and investment. You will be amazed at how much money and monthly bills they can save you if you just adopt but a few of their building techniques.
On my way out of town, I drove to the site of a proposed veterans rehabilitation complex an Army acquaintance was getting the paperwork in order for; we’d discussed options for the site months earlier, and it was good to finally ‘put boots on deck’ to see it and all it might become for myself. I headed for Santa Fe to orient to it, too, right after. The high winds and sandstorms along the way reminded me of the very similar ones my teams faced in Iraq.
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Phase 3:
I’ll return to New Mexico to go into Space via Spaceport America. It will probably be with a Spaceship full of supermodels accompanying me, and hopefully with at least one of my heavenly ICVs. You know what that means; my first orgy in orbit and zero gravity. Yay, precedents!
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Childhood Pass:
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Nice Hotels:
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town:
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Hotel Chimayo de Sante Fe:
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Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces:
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Hotel Parq Central:
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Hotel St. Francis:
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Inn at Vanessie:
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La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa:
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Nativo Lodge – Albuquerque:
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Palacio de Marquesa – Taos:
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Nicest Neighborhoods:
tba
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Vegan Restaurants & Shops:
tba
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Ancient Ruins:
- “Alien Throne” rock formation like high-back chair with wind-blown holes –in the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness area south of Farmington (the town with the fake veteran-assistance program Recon druggie)
- Ship Rock: possible World Tree stump, possibly retrofitted to be a castle which got sound-melted
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Other Sites:
TBA
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