A fertile agricultural region along the Rio Grande framed by the Organ Mountains, Las Cruces is the former stomping grounds of outlaw Billy the Kid and the present-day home to New Mexico State University.
You’ll get to experience the mountains and the desert as you travel from El Paso to Gila National Forest. See our 4-day trip planner.
US-38873 from Jocelyn. New Mexico state flower:Yucca, bird: Roadrunner, tree: Pinon Pine, motto: Crescit Eundo
White Sands is a truly magical place to visit, but there are limited services. Here's what to take to White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
The ultimate Southwest road trip itinerary! The route includes Southwest national parks and fun recommendations for a Southwest road trip with kids.
White Sands is a truly magical place to visit, but there are limited services. Here's what to take to White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
Have the adventure of a lifetime with a road trip from El Paso, Texas to Tucson Arizona. Though the drive clocks in at just under five hours, there’s plenty ...
White Sands is a truly magical place to visit, but there are limited services. Here's what to take to White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
White Sands National Park is a park like no other with its stunning white, gypsum dunes. Here's everything you need to know before you visit!
Waterfall in the Lincoln National Forest, Sacramento Mountains, outside of Cloudcroft, New Mexico - Near the Tunnel.
White Sands National Monument is a white washed oasis of gypsum dunes dotted with greenery, and truly one of the most unusual and beautiful landscapes in the US. Located in the northern Chihuahuan Desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, it is an easy drive from the airport in El Paso, or the perfect addition to any Southwest road
Even if you’ve never heard of saguaro (sa-WAH-ro) before, chances are you’ll immediately think of the American Southwest the moment you see one. The cacti’s stately silhouette is used to brand ever…
White Sands is a truly magical place to visit, but there are limited services. Here's what to take to White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
Things to Do in Las Cruces: White Sands National Monument, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Reserve, Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, Chiles in Hatch, Old Mesilla, Valley of Fires.
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The luminarias at Pennsylvania Circle in El Paso, Texas.
In a Chihuahuan desert patch near the Bolson de Mapimi in Mexico, there exists an eerie area of land called Mapimí Silent Zone (La Zona Del Silencio) or the Zone of Silence. The area's name derives from an odd anomaly that prohibits radio waves from transmitting inside the zone.
Welcome to our charming collection of handcrafted tumbleweed chandeliers, where the rugged beauty of the American Southwest meets the whimsical charm of bohemian design. Each piece in our collection is meticulously crafted from live-sourced tumbleweeds harvested from the sweeping deserts of New Mexico, USA. Carefully selected for their unique shapes and textures, our tumbleweeds are left to dry naturally for over six months, allowing them to take on their signature airy form. Once dried, they are lovingly hand-shaped while still preserving their organic beauty. Choose from our selection of custom-made pendants, each one a unique expression of boho style and craftsmanship. Our tumbleweed chandeliers radiate a soft, inviting glow using Edison lights that will add warmth and personality to any space. Whether suspended above a dining table, in a cozy corner, or as a focal point in your living room, our tumbleweed chandeliers are sure to captivate and inspire. Embrace the spirit of adventure and bring a touch of the desert into your home with our handcrafted tumbleweed chandeliers, each one a true work of art.
If you’ve been craving a sweet escape, we can’t help but mention that this blog is just for you! We’ve featured some of the most stunning cakes we’ve captured over the past two years and we’re still drooling over them. From succulent accented beauties to bright and festive babes to the classic, yet
Book Synopsis Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier. They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures. Review Quotes "... there's a weighty mournfulness to Luna's borderlands, where the stark poverty of Mexico butts against the brash, unyielding sprawl of her American city. Pity the Drowned Horses takes its reader across a ravaged landscape where ... the last few hares sprint across a bloodied/highway and there are women everywhere/who have half-lost their souls/in sewing needles and vacuum-cleaner parts. In this world of little comfort, Luna is intent on seeking meaning--however bitter--in the emptiness and meditating on the redeeming power of language."--The Texas Observer"[A] heartfelt testimony from the borderlands, the place where music clanks like chains as history simultaneously crumbles and rebuilds itself, where weary dancers laugh anger away. ...a triumphant debut and worthy of keeping company with the classic titles of border literature. Luna proves herself a leader among the next generation of Chicano poets."--El Paso Times"From Sylvia Plath to popsicle-sellers in Juarez, from Mozart to maquiladoras, this stunning debut collection charts 'the way of borders....the way things thirst.' Remarkable!" --Lisa D. Chavez"In her opening poem, Luna declares that 'pain is living and living is pain, ' but while she relentlessly probes the hardscrabble lives of many of America's Latinos, these poems aren't grim reading. They're transfigured by this debut author's extraordinary lyric power." --Library Journal"Sheryl Luna's book Pity the Drowned Horses bears witness not only to the poverty and wonder of the borderlands, to their dynamic and often tragic clash of cultural rivers, but also to an intense, tender, and unflinching sensibility refusing the easy distance of mere reportage. Rarely do we encounter a poet with such associative speed, such free access to her unconscious resources, who simultaneously reaches out with such heartbreaking clarity and sweep of vision. Here we see the moral imagination made both vulnerable and bold by its transfigurative investments, its impassioned music, its raw energy and recovering grace. A dazzling debut." --Bruce Bond"In Pity the Drowned Horses, Sheryl Luna carves out of the El Paso landscape the music of the borderlands where loss and acceptance converge. . . . Luna exquisitely captures--like no other poet before her--the 'unsung positive capability/ of the desert'; her syntax--sometimes raw and edgy--creates a tableau where everything rushes toward 'our wild need, all sweat, all shiver.' The overall effect is simply mesmerizing." --Robert Vasquez"Sheryl Luna's debut collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, poses several questions about the meaning of 'home' is it rooted to a particular place? can we escape it? can we find it elsewhere? once we've left, can we return? . . . She circles through various locales and landscapes, including San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Prague, and Paris, but like the frayed-wing hawk who drifts through the collection, Luna's speaker is drawn, slightly battered, back to the desert of her origins." --Latino Poetry Review About the Author Sheryl Luna is an accomplished poet and writer whose work has appeared in literary journals, including The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, and Feminist Studies. She has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and for the Colorado book award. Her second collection, Seven, was published in 2013. She has taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder and Metropolitan State University in Denver. She currently teaches workshops for a community mental health center.
by T. Lindsay Baker (Author), B. H. Burdick (Author), Elmer Kelton (Preface by) No water ever tasted better than when it came up clear and cool from deep in the ground, its flow pulsing to the steady rhythm of the wind-driven pump. . . . Windmill men such as Tex Burdick and others described in Baker's narrative deserve much credit for making life possible in semi-desert rural areas of Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West. --Elmer Kelton, from the foreword During the Great Depression the windmillers of the Burdick & Burdick Company of El Paso, one of the largest windmill distributorships in the United States, crisscrossed the desert Southwest to bring wind power and water to a parched land. Battling blazing sun, dust storms, dizzying heights, and the hazards of cacti and rattlesnakes, they worked seven days a week from sunup to sundown and counted themselves lucky to earn two dollars a day. From 1923 to 1942, company owner B. H. "Tex" Burdick, Sr., photographed his men at work, producing a chronicle of the windmillers' lives. Fifty of his remarkable images, paired here with text by historian T. Lindsay Baker, preserve the fascinating story of the industry that made western settlement possible. Author Biography T. Lindsay Baker holds the W. K. Gordon Endowed Chair in Texas Industrial History at Tarleton State University. He has written more than twenty books on the history of the American West, a number of them dealing with energy topics, and he edits the quarterly Windmillers' Gazette newsletter on wind power history. A fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Baker and his wife live on a family farm in central Texas. Number of Pages: 107 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.5 x 8.54 IN Illustrated: Yes
Albuquerque New Mexico... hot air balloons, adobe architecture, ristras, petroglyphs, a pueblo community in the sky, turquoise, desert landscapes, Rio Grande, mountains that turn pink at sunset, a musical highway, Route 66, street art, awesome food, wineries, breweries and tumbleweed snowmen. Here are 65 things to do, see and eat
We left Tombstone and began our 424 mile, 9 hour trip through New Mexico for Van Horn Texas. We picked up a hitch hiker and dropped him off in Lordsburg where we got stuck at the gas pumps behind a truck that locked their keys in the ignition. After a short stop to see the worlds largest roadrunner made out of garbage in las cruces, we continued on through El Paso where we stopped for supper. Tonights RV park was to be a KOA for $40
Las Cruces, New Mexico has once again been named one of America’s top places to retire! For the last decade Las Cruces has consistently been named among the top cities to live by trusted sou…
You’ll get to experience the mountains and the desert as you travel from El Paso to Gila National Forest. See our 4-day trip planner.
El Paso stands on the Rio Grand in the furthest western corner of Texas, and across the border from Chihuahua, Mexico so you can imagine how many Mexican influences exist ... Read more
