New Mexico books

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3. Books

Regarding the book you mentioned, I also bought and only skimmed a similar one: 'Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico,' the diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin.

Because I can only take less than two weeks off work at a time and it takes us three days to get there from Memphis, I haven't seen large portions of the state yet. When we go, we generally take I-40 west through Oklahoma City, and head (directly or indirectly via Santa Fe) to Albuquerque and south to Las Cruces. Going back, we head northeast past Alamogordo, Carrizozo, Three Rivers, Vaughn, and up to Santa Rosa, where we pick I-40 up again. We've spent a little time sightseeing in Santa Fe, but haven't had the chance to really see Albuquerque yet. We've also done little side trips to City of Rocks and to Silver City (where we were hoping to see the Buckhorn Saloon, but unfortunately it was closed at the time). I realize that there are huge swaths of the state I haven't seen yet, most notably the west/northwest and north. My plan is to eventually relocate to Las Cruces, as I love the southern NM desert. If I was wanting to retire in a semi-rural area, I could see myself living in Carrizozo.

Soon I'll have the tell the story of how and why we started coming to NM in the first place.