Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
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ART IN ABQ The landscape and highway-scape of northern New Mexico, through which historic Route 66 passes, lends itself at every turn to the work of painters, sculptors, architects, writers, dancers—and even bus drivers. (This sign marking an Albuquerque Rapid Transit stop on Central Avenue—old 66—fits right in.) MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 10 | THE TEXAS SPUR
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
MOTO PHOTO OP marks the drive through Grants, New Mexico. | THE TEXAS SPUR
REFRIGERATED AIR was a draw for pre-World War II travelers, as it still is today. | THE TEXAS SPUR
A JULY MIDAFTERNOON is not the time to idle for miles in an I-40 traffic jam. We bypassed that stretch of Route 66 instead. | THE TEXAS SPUR
BASKET CASE In Grants, an array of repurposed satellite dishes projects the beauty of native Acoma designs. | THE TEXAS SPUR
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
ORBIT (at right, not the figure in the Texas Spur cap) is the wacky mascot of the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team, the only franchise in professional sports to get its name from a“Simpsons” TV episode. | THE TEXAS SPUR
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
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ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 7
New Mexico likes to call itself the Land of Enchantment.
And so it is, quite often, for their nextdoor neighbors the Texans.
After all, their kinship stretches back a good ways—to the era when both were parts of old Mexico, and before that, the domain of nomadic or settled indigenous tribes.
