From the Blog

Stories, reflections, and dispatches from a writer’s life in New Mexico.

  • Route 66 at 100: New Mexico’s Mother Road

    Route 66 at 100: New Mexico’s Mother Road

    On November 11, 1926, a highway was designated that would change the American West forever. Route 66 ran 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passing through the heart of New Mexico along the way. It turns one hundred years old this November. New Mexico has been living alongside it the whole time. Before…