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Date: November 30th, 2025 3:13 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Albuquerque-Roswell-Los Alamos-Santa Fe then going to Taos to ski. Any suggestions for other shit to do see/do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472319) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 2:14 PM Author: Walnut histrionic son of senegal ( . )( . ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49483642) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:19 PM Author: charismatic brilliant tattoo mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49495384) |
Date: November 30th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Scarlet geriatric gaping Chaco Canyon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472320) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:40 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Ahhhh, not planning to go north or west of Albuquerque on this trip, not enough time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472861) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 2:52 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people it's way better than roswell/carlsbad unless you just love caves and aliens. you could do chaco, shiprock, malpais, and acoma pueblo. maybe even pie town. but then you'd miss hatch, white sands, and ruidoso. tough call! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474731) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I’ll go west next time to AZ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49477468) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 3:17 PM Author: hyperventilating stimulating trailer park community account Related question, Where is more interesting to travel to- phoenix and Sedona or new Mexico ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472330) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 3:23 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm this is my first time to NM so TBD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472345) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 4:29 PM Author: canary meetinghouse headpube The better parts of New Mexico like Santa Fe are full of olds. In Sedona/AZ you at least run into people your own age. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472551) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 4:12 PM Author: Stirring mad-dog skullcap bawdyhouse Pie Town (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472502) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:41 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm If this trip goes well a follow up Western NM trip is going to be needed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472866) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:53 PM Author: Stirring mad-dog skullcap bawdyhouse skip all that other gay shit
and get right to the pie eatin |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:56 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm requires too long a detour against direction of travel for this one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472895) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:08 PM Author: mildly autistic misunderstood volcanic crater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472920) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 4:27 PM Author: dashing stag film lettuce Eddington looks 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472545) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm This is what I am thinking
-Albuquerque (Breaking Bad, Nat'l Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Old Town) - Alamogordo (Museum of Space History) - White Sands Nat'l Monument - Roswell (UFO Museum, Walker Aviation Museum) - Carlsbad Cavern - Billy The Kid Museum - Santa Fe (Downtown) - Bandalier - Los Alamos - Taos Ski
All generally one direction of travel ABQ-Roswell-Santa Fe-Taos. |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:57 PM Author: Ungodly property laser beams Nuke museum is 180, hmu if you're in ABQ the week of the 15th (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472898) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 6:58 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Neg will be in Sun Valley by the 15th. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472901) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Ungodly property laser beams shucks, work travel for me until then. Enjoy the sunshine! e: Also it's hard to go wromg w Mexican food in ABQ but La Guelaguetza is 18000. Best meal I've ever had under $10. Whenever you see a photo of a short mexican guy shaking hands with the mayor, you know it's gonna be at least 175 |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:01 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I think it's meant to be cold AF the next 2 weeks, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472908) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:04 PM Author: Ungodly property laser beams Cold or no, you get a lot of sun here. Some snow on occasion, which turns the roads into a mosh pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472911) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Well hopefully Taos gets some snow before I get there. Any bar/restau in ABQ you reco? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472913) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:09 PM Author: Ungodly property laser beams La Guelaguetza is in the ghetto but it's 180. The Copper Lounge is decently upscale for the area, food isn't bad and tbey have mezcal flights which are 180. Also in the ghetto, but a different ghetto. Really the whole town is kind of sketch tbh, but I spend most of my time in the air force base. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472921) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:10 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm TY will investigate. Yea entire city doesn't seem great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472926) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:20 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people the best dish in the city is a green chile burrito with chicharrones at the new mexico beef jerky company. also cutbow coffee is 180. two fools tavern is a 180 pub. ihatov bakery on central is 180. the best weed is at carver family farms. the shop on central is 180 brunch. for something fancier los poblanos is 180 if it's nice outside. and for the money it's hard to beat frontier. it's the fastest-cheapest-best-high-volume restaurant i've ever been to, the logistics of it all blows me away. the owners should be billionaires. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472946) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm 89769387262398 TYTY had NM Beef Jerky and Frontier on the list already which run down the others. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472976) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: motley nursing home patrolman no one eats mexican food in nm, this is fucking terrible advice from someone who is not 505 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473471) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 9:37 AM Author: Ungodly property laser beams Soz, I'm a transplant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473843) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:01 PM Author: canary meetinghouse headpube There isn't much one can do in Los Alamos iirc. Its still a government research laboratory town, so things are pretty secured. There is a museum but I don't recall it being very large.
It felt like a long drive from Santa Fe for what I saw. |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm It looks like it's about ~25min from that Pueblo site and on the way back to Santa Fe, so prob worth swinging through even for a small museum. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472910) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people agree but he's going to bandelier, might as well stop by. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472915) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:06 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm This was the thought process. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472916) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:24 PM Author: Chocolate faggotry place of business Carlsbad Caverns (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472956) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm On the list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472977) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: ruddy vigorous associate ABQ sucks but has good food Monroes diner is cr
Santa Fe has the shittiest most insufferable faggot boomers ive ever met in my life
the housing coding is kinda gay also
Taos is sick apparently
NM feels very evil and demonic ime |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I figure Santa Fe will be all boomerlibs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472978) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:31 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people madrid is a cool artsy abandoned mining town between santa fe and abq. jimez hot springs outside of santa fe are cool too. ten thousand waves in santa fe is 180. acoma pueblo outside of abq is worth checking out.
southeastern new mexico might be the ugliest place on earth, not sure why you're bothering with it but whatever. white sands is 180 but that's quite a diversion from ABQ/santa fe, about 4 hours. if you're going to do it stop in hatch and get a burger at sparkys. also ruidoso is a lovely little mountain town not far from white sands. but i'd head back north after that, roswell and carlsbad are total shitholes. |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 7:39 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm TYTY, NM Masterman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49472980) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: disrespectful home clown I used to go there as a kid. I remember White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns. The caverns are cool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473035) |
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Date: November 30th, 2025 11:54 PM Author: cracking maize hall hissy fit i've got nothing to contribute but my friends who ski love taos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473465) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 12:01 AM Author: motley nursing home patrolman santa fe, make reservations in advance for the shed, order the green chili stew, you’re welcome
gila cave dwellings, but you’ll see something similar in bandalier. the most interesting ones are off grid
vla will be too out of your way
abandoned nike silos, but someone would have to show you where they are
don’t buy hatttch chilis, the best are from lemitar
the bridge past taos that was featured in natural born killers is pretty impressive, my land is around there
epstein’s estate is accessible if you know the right people, it’s a little south east of santa fe if i recall correctly
there are several natural graveyards that you might be able to see a body decomposing, 180 if you’ve never seen something like that before
there are countless old mines but you’d die if you went into one. plenty of abandoned little towns with obscure history (eg last hanging in the state) that are cool to poke around in (carry a gun, though, just in case)
there’s a lot of kooky occult stuff up in the 4 corners area but that’s really dependent on their wiccan calendars and you’d need a guide to sneak you around to watch it
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:52 AM Author: ruddy vigorous associate Shed is 180 tyft I forgot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473563) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 9:45 AM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people also the pantry. same shit for cheaper and without the crowd. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473856) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 11:23 AM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm TY will call The Shed at 11 when they open to book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474044) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 11:39 AM Author: motley nursing home patrolman post availability, i'm curious the current demand level (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474086) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Copped 830pm, was only table they had. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474345) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:33 PM Author: ruddy vigorous associate It’s pointless if you don’t order the green Chile stuff fyi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474457) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:35 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Will COP it then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474460) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:59 PM Author: motley nursing home patrolman figured, when i did a new years eve dinner there i booked like 3 months in advance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474547) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 12:05 AM Author: Chartreuse forum reading party I buttfucked a gay boomer in Las Cruces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49473476) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 12:18 PM Author: talented point Hatch is the cr imo. You can buy highest quality peppers and related stuff. Top notch you can smell 🌶 like 20 miles away.
Southern nm is highly underrated imo. It's a whole different universe and worth exploring. Bisbee AZ is also chill and Tucson is great. This is not NM but it's the same vibe.
I40 no. I10 yes |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:07 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people counterpoint: you can buy all of that stuff anywhere in new mexico. go into any grocery store and there are ten brands of jarred green and red chile and all the powders and chips and nuts you could possibly want.
sparky's, otoh, is totally worth the trip. |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: talented point you can buy it anywhere (in NM) but hatch is a whole experience which I think is what soemone who has a billion dollars and trvels to random places every weekend is looking for. anyway you seem to know your stuff so respect hope he hears us |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 1:20 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Is it UNHINGED to try to leave ABQ early AF, get to Sparky’s when they open/see Hatch, then drive through White Sands 8mi scenic loop, pop into Alamogordo for the Space Museum and the. Head to Roswell and either go to UFO museum if arriving before 5, or do it the next AM?
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people i think that's pushing it. spend the night in ruidoso, have some posole and beers at downshift, drink bourbon at win place show (closes at 6 m-w, so go there first if necessary), and go to quarters for night life (it's very prole!). tina's for breakfast and head to roswell.
also if you have daylight after alamogordo check out the three rivers petroglyphs down the highway. it's real quick, 180 views. it's not as monumental as the national park in abq but it's more accessible. |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 5:55 PM Author: motley nursing home patrolman hatttch is all marketing, it's like the bud light of chili peppers
people who know their shit have sources for chimayo, escondida, velarde, chiltepin (the only native pepper in the us) or maybe alcalde (mostly for sauce) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Judgmental Razzle Base you don't really seem like a new mexico kind of person (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474392) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:16 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm What is that even supposed to mean? Have been interested in seeing what's going on in NM for a while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474394) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 2:40 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people nm is the poorest and least ambitious state in the country. it is literally third-world in many places, particularly in and around the rez. there are plenty of legit richmos in santa fe and taos, but they're all old and the culture is to downplay it. it is the total opposite of the models and bottles lifestyle you usually seek. outside of the very fanciest places the customer service is abysmal. like they take pride in not giving a shit about anything. it's the whole vibe. beautiful, unique, interesting place, but jfc the people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474699) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: Judgmental Razzle Base cr
said it better than i could |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 3:05 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm i've been all over the actual SPS 3rd world. Not all models & bottles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474759) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:26 PM Author: Claret curious site it would be insane to go to roswell and not go to carlsbad caverns and if you're at carlsbad caverns it's not far to guadalupe mountains
white sands is 180
taos is 180
i've always wanted to see shiprock |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I have all of this except DEM mtns on the itin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474438) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:29 PM Author: Claret curious site if you are with a woman take them to Chokola in Taos they will love it
Also I've never been to Taos Pueblo but it's supposedly the longest continually inhabited place in North America
Rio Grande gorge bridge is pretty cool
Arroyo Seco is a quirky little town outside of Taos |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:31 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I any of this Taos stuff worth taking time away from skiing? Taos is planned as a ski stop (Taos ski valley).
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Will stop at that bridge on the way from Santa Fe to Taos. |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:37 PM Author: Claret curious site sounds like you are staying at the ski hill and not in town? i'd just hit up the town at night after you're done, there's not a whole lot going on at the ski hill (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474471) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Yes, at The Blake which I believe is ski in/out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474510) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people taos pueblo is cool and people actually live there. it's not some reconstructed thing like in central america, or some degraded ruin like most indian sites. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474689) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:34 PM Author: Walnut histrionic son of senegal maybe drive by Epstein’s ranch? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474458) |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:50 PM Author: razzmatazz elastic band really tough guy I'm going to TSV here soon; what weekend you there?
I'm also having trouble understanding your itinerary; you know that roswell is nowhere near ABQ/SF, right? I assume you're flying into El Paso/Midland and are going to work your way up to ABQ then SF? The southeast part of the state is not what I'd choose to see as it largely resembles west texas, although carlsbad caverns and white sands are cool. |
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Date: December 1st, 2025 1:53 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Flying into ABQ and starting there, detouring south to Roswell and that stuff, then driving back up to Santa Fe for a few. After all the rest is wrapped, up to Taos to ski and eventually flying out of SAF to SUN through I think DEN? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49474516) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 2:31 PM Author: razzmatazz elastic band really tough guy Nice, although I stand by my view that roswell is not a Tier 1 NM location. (I've only been once; not trying to be an MFE.) Like somebody said upthread, ruidoso is 180 and basically like the hamptons for wealthy OilTexans; if you can get up to red river (just north of taos) it's 180^180.
I've come to prefer taos to all the major colorado resorts, and, in general, NM to CO, and I say that as someone who has fond childhood memories from CO. Colorado has the great outdoors, but every goddamn one of them is packed to the gills with white liberal yuppies. Taking a break from your boulder midlaw job to hike the flatirons at lunch sounds awesome, until you realize it's more like taking a multi-story escalator at the ATL airport. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 3:34 PM Author: Claret curious site NM is a treasure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49477978) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 11:32 PM Author: razzmatazz elastic band really tough guy CR. Lack of any and all jobs (including for the native population, let alone bald pencil-necked transplants) has kept the landscape pristine and the environment free from yuppie swarms. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479020) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 4:23 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people oh yeah, check this place out on your way back from roswell:
https://noscumsaloon.com/ |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 5:00 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Do I owe it to the bort to go to the HHM building? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478186) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 5:08 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people throw a pizza on walter's roof, the owner loves it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478210) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Says he built a fence to stop this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478212) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people you gotta launch that fucker man, spin into it like a discus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478227) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm House was done up in Christmas decorations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478535) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:01 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people where you at dood? go check out two fools. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478748) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:04 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm If that’s a bar I think I gotta tap out. I got less than 3h sleep last night. Long travel day, landed got car and drove around to a bunch of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul stuff. Unpacked and realized I forget to grab my laptop charger at 445am so went out to find another one. Working out now then prob just gonna netflix it and go to bed early. Planning to go to Old Town and Nuclear Museum tomortow but will have loads of spare time if you have other ABQ area suggestions. Planning dinner Frontier tomorrow (what to get)? TYTY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478754) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:08 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people do frontier for breakfast or lunch or something light and go to mesa provisions for dinner. you'll need a res even for the bar:
https://www.exploretock.com/mesa-provisions-albuquerque/
petroglyph national park is cool but you gotta walk a bit and it looks pretty cold.
rio grande nature center is a nice park area you can walk to the river, maybe see some sandhill cranes.
if you've really got the time, you could drive up to sandia peak or take a tram. it's a great lookout over the city and to the east. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:10 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm 40s/50s during the day only cold at night. Was gonna go New Mexico Beef Jerky for breakfast you suggest Frontier over that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478769) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:12 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people no fucking way, beef jerky chicarron breakfast burrito all the way. you probably won't even want lunch.
frontier is great in it's own way but it's very casual, i wouldn't blow a dinner on it. mesa provisions is top notch southwestern/new mexican, one of the best restaurants in town. you can drop by frontier anytime and get a breakfast plate or a posole. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:12 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I was shooting for more local staple / prole than fine dining for dinner. Def not planning lunch. Will google the other one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478773) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:14 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people oh well shit, go to the monte carlo steakhouse and get a green chile cheeseburger. save frontier for a quick breakfast, lunch, or late nite snack. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478778) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:24 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm That looks 180 AF (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478795) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:36 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people it is. ENJOY! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478837) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:37 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm TYTY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478841) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2025 9:41 PM Author: adventurous sapphire stead alpha Epstein Ranch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49478844) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 11:57 AM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Seems to be private property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479791) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:01 PM Author: Swollen Swashbuckling Tank it'll be cold. The Valles Caldera is a cool place to xc ski if you know how and want to skate around
Blake's Lotaburger is pretty 180 but depends on location if you want to avoid buzzing flies and fat beaners greasing it up after stuffing themselves with xmas tamales and other fixins |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:03 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people blakes is fast food slop. he's going to monte carlo and sparky's, two of the best burgers in the state. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479812) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:05 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm At NM Beef Jerky now, 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479820) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:07 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people 180. if the old guy owner is there he'll let you sample all the jerky you want. i'm not crazy about NM style jerky, it's super thin and crispy, but free is free. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479822) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:08 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Which would you reco to bring on the road (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479826) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:09 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people i like green. if you're into really spicy shit the habanero one kicks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479829) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Tyty, that breakfast burrito was insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479843) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm All skiing will be downhill apparently a SNOWDICK is headed for TSV (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49479817) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 5:35 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm NM brother, need to run some stuff by you to make sure closed out ABQ properly. This AM went to New Mexico Beef Jerky, like I said that chicharron breakfast burrito was prob the best i've ever had, FMA. Took you up on suggestion to go to Petroglyph after that. Did one of the canyon hikes and holy fuck LMAO at having to pretend that primitive shit counts as "art." Fucking retard level rock scribbles hundreds of years after Euros had the Renaissance, LMAO just fucking LMAO. Old Town was also not very impressive, saw the church and went to the FUAAAARKING Rattlesnake Museum which was quirky and not bad. After, went the the Nuclear Science Museum which was 897094382478293763284 and had the bonus of SEVERAL aircraft on static display outside, very CR. Drove through the new downtown after which was also SPS. Chilling now, it's sleeting/snowing. Will try to get to your Monte Carlo Steakhouse reco tonight and figure out what time I need to leave for Alamogordo/White Sands/Hatch in the AM with the shit weather. Hope this snow is piling up in Taos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49481155) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 5:46 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people sup nigga
sparky's opens at 10:30. it's 2.5-3 hours, so get out by 8. but careful with that weather, it's a long desolate stretch of highway. there are several big ravines about halfway that will be dangerous as fuck if there's ice. but it's warmer down there, so probably nbd. after hatch you cut east just before las cruces to get to alamogordo/white sands. |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 5:54 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm How long should I budget timewise for White Sands assuming just driving the scenic loop with maybe some picture stops but no hiking. Is the space museum in Alamogordo worth it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49481207) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 5:56 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people i dunno man i would go there with the dog and walk around for hours. i guess you could drive it in 30-45 minutes? never been to the space museum.
if you like to cruise around there's also a huge lava flow just north of white sands in carrizozo that's pretty wild. you could poke around there and then go to ruidoso the back way. |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 5:59 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Ok, going to check the weather forecast along the route and try to work up a good sched tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49481228) |
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Date: December 3rd, 2025 8:26 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm My man...Monte Carlo was fucking EXCELLENT, great reco (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49481796) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 9:01 AM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people you're gonna love sparkys, shame it's not a weekend though when it's really hopping with a blues band. upside is you won't have to wait in line for an hour.
if you're a sweetsmo get a strawberry and red chile milkshake. |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:09 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Sparky’s was good but the burger at Monte Carlo was better I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484443) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:36 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people where you at now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484525) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Roswell. Today was a long one. Drove from ABQ, stopped in Truth or Consequences because I was intrigued by the name. After continued to Hatch and Sparky’s. Went to White Sands (84847373636) after lunch then the Soace History Museum in Alamogordo which was also CR. Got to Roswell about 30 min ago. Too late for UFO museum.
Will hit the road early tomorrow and be at Carlsbad Caverns at 9am, after pass back through Roswell for UFO museum then stop at Billy The Kid grave and museum to stretch legs before last leg to Santa Fe. Dining at the place you reco’d.
Sat AM will do an early spin through Bandelier and Los Alamos then explore town on foot before settling in to watch FOOTBALL. Plan to be on the road by 8/9 on Sunday so I can get up skiing in Taos by lunchtime Sunday. Woke up this AM in ABQ w my car HOSED DOWN w snow and people told me Taos got tons and it’s still dumping so should be 180. |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people godspeed friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484551) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Follow the plan as is? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484651) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 9:15 AM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people yeah i think that works. other resto recs in santa fe:
rowley ales. they make a lot of farmhouse stuff, slightly sour, but really good with really good elevated bar food. it's down the street from meow wolf which definitely should be on your list but it's not mentioned anywhere ITT, which is kind of shocking.
paper dosa is a great indian place which you would never expect there. it'll have a line out the door.
izanami is the restaurant for ten thousand waves. really really good izakaya and the whole place legit looks like japan. again, an unexpected treat in the land of chile.
two classic new mexican places in the plaza are cafe pasquals and coyote cafe. pasquals is more of a bunch place, coyote a fancier dinner spot.
another tip: the o'keefe museum in town is a fucking rip off, but the ghost ranch is really cool. |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 8:04 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Any good bars to pick up broads or is everyone here a boomer lib? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487298) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 10:10 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people all olds, everything closes by 9. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487525) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm That's good to know, I won't feel like I am missing out then. I am fucking cooked from all that driving. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487531) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: motley nursing home patrolman oh, i forgot, since you're totally not jewish, be sure to check out the spiral staircase in the church in santa fe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482420) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 12:39 AM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm In the Loretto Chapel? ON IT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482474) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 12:42 AM Author: motley nursing home patrolman yes, built by st joseph, that was jesus' earth dad. remember to dip your finger in the holy water, and it's up, down, left, then right. when in doubt, fall back on your jesuit law school training, you got this! 💪✝️ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482482) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 2:06 AM Author: bespoke boistinker Dang, so much goods in NM. Skiing Taos is really fun and especially amazing on a pow day. Epic steeps around Kechina Peak lift. Also, Lift 2 can have epic, mostly unridden pow to explore. Locals are super friendly/fun and will show you around. The Bavarian Restaurant is great for lunch. Apres right at bottom of Al's run there for music and mingling or the Blake for grinds.
Actual town of Taos is artsy fartsy but old school. We enjoyed visiting all the local artisan shops there. Great food everywhere we went...
Santa Fe is good but pretty touristy. Check out the historic Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Shit ton of art and jewelry around there. Georgia Okeefe's Museum was pretty cool. The Buffalo Thunder Resort on the way up to Taos was nice too if you like to gamble.
Bandalier Nat Park was interesting if you're into ancient Pueblo ruins. Pretty cool caves dwellings and rocks formations etc. If you're around there the Los Alomos museum is epic for nuclear bomb history...
And if ever do a future trip to NW New Mex check out Bisti Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. It's like stepping into some Star Wars nother world. My son and I hiked all around there tripping out on the crazy formations. Barely anyone around. Bring shrooms or some fun stuff for extra credit.
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:34 AM Author: talented point UhOh killed it itt iirc. Someone id definitely listen to again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482653) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:48 AM Author: cracking maize hall hissy fit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482688) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 9:31 AM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people tyty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49482761) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 1:14 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm CR, great recos. Just sitting down at Sparky’s now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49483414) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 12:44 PM Author: razzmatazz elastic band really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49486159) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 7:43 PM Author: Twinkling Church Coldplay Fan Will you buy a turquoise Swiss watch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484555) |
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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49484652) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 8:10 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm That was a LONG fucking day, drove ~455 miles. Woke up in Roswell had the scrape the frost off my car before starting, The stretch from Artesia to Carlsbad looks like something out of Mad Max, then you turn off by some industrial parks and feel like if you get pulled over you'll get tossed into Nothing But Trouble. Carlsbad Cavern was fucking unreal, real Fraggle Rock shit. It started off with AWE, then on the egress seemed a bit dark, pretty sure one of those big formations is actually Cthulu and ended up with NOWAG related LOLZ in the "Chinese Theater" tableau. Went back up to Roswell to the UFO Museum...def convinced a UFO crashed there in '47, then to the Billy the Kid Museum and Gravesight in Sumner. The drive between Roswell and Sumner is fucking wild. Two lane road forever with nothing but mesa as far as you can see in every direction. Was going like 110 the whole way. Sumnet itself was a crumbling shithole, people all seemed inbred. Billy the Kid stuff was cool. The last 50-60 miles headed up from there to Santa Fe was 98079382790238 as the sun was setting and throwing pinks and purple and blues over the landscape. Got in to Santa Fe a bit after dark. Have dinner at the shed in a few hours, debating passing TF out and getting to Bandelier early tomorrow unless there are any bars with young tramps worth checking out after dinner? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487310) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 10:15 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people wake up early, get breakfast at the pantry, head to los alamos, tour the houses and stuff, the nuke museum, grab a bite and a coffee, go to bandelier for a couple hours, head back to santa fe for dinner, i recommend coyote cafe, a bit upscale but still pretty casual, get the elk tenderloin. you probably need to make a res at the bar. pasquales is more casual, but you might need a res there too it's very small. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487532) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 10:17 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm It looked like it made sense to go to Bandelier first then Los Alamos, no? I am going to knock it out early in the AM (breakfast is included at the hotel), then I gotta get back in time to see the historic stuff downtown and watch the SEC CCG and the B1G game. Another jammed day. Then Sunday I can finally sleep in and head to Taos like 10/1030. TY for all the recs! Really helped flesh the trip out and make it 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487536) |
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Date: December 5th, 2025 10:21 PM Author: Vengeful spectacular roast beef main people i guess it doesn't matter really, but it could warm up a bit if you do los alamos first. bandelier is down in a river bed, gets pretty cold and windy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49487545) |
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Date: December 6th, 2025 3:39 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm Bandelier was cool, I guess...but I have trouble caring about 500 Indians living in a "city" that is just caves in a cliffside when 2,000 years before that Euros were creating great works and had cities with 100,000+ inhabitants. Seems like lib nonsense to pretend this shit is impressive. The Los Alamos Museum was 180 though, had no idea that the core buildings were repurposed from a 180 prepschool that was forging teen MESH into IRON for decades before the war.
Overall, I hate Santa Fe. Aside from Loretto and the San Miguel chapel the entire city is just a fake strip mall designed to sell lib boomers luxury goods, shitty art and "Indian" products. TTT AF. |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 8:58 PM Author: Claret curious site I love New Mexico and I agree, was very underwhelmed by Santa Fe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49495334) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:13 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm What were your favs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49495367) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: Claret curious site I love Taos and northern New Mexico in general Cloudcloft/Ruidoso White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns Need to get to Shiprock |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 11:31 PM Author: Thriller kitty cat business firm I’m in Taos Ski Valley now…worth taking a trip to Taos proper? If so, highlights? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804446&forum_id=2/en-en#49495671) |