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One of New Mexico’s best drives starts practically in your backyard if you’re based in the East Mountains — and most people who’ve lived near Albuquerque for years haven’t made it yet. The Turquoise Trail is New Mexico’s version of a road that does everything you want a road to do. It’s scenic without being

Most people who spend real time in Albuquerque didn’t plan to. They stopped for a night or two, started paying attention, and quietly extended their stay until it became something else. There’s a version of RV travel where every morning is about what’s ahead. Where you’re always moving, always calculating the next fuel stop, always

Desert driving has its own particular exhaustion. The light, the distance, the heat radiating off the road — it adds up in ways that take more than one night’s sleep to clear. There’s something specific about driving through the desert for several hours that leaves you feeling wrung out in a way that’s hard to

Albuquerque is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the United States — and the buildings here know it. This is a place where architecture tells a story that goes back a very long way. Most visitors to Albuquerque spend their time at the Balloon Fiesta, hiking the Sandias, or working through the green

New Mexico is genuinely beautiful and genuinely dry. Those two facts are related — and learning to live with both is part of what makes desert RVing so rewarding. The Rio Grande cuts through Albuquerque like a reminder. Water exists here — it’s just not something the land gives up easily. New Mexico averages around

Albuquerque after dark is a different city. The desert cools, the stars come out, and the curtain goes up on a performing arts scene that most visitors don’t even know exists. People come to Albuquerque for the hot air balloons, the green chile, the Rio Grande, the Sandia Mountains going pink at sunset. All of

Not every travel day needs to be a hike. Sometimes the most satisfying thing you can do in a new city is slow down, step indoors, and let the place come to you. Albuquerque is well-known for its outdoor terrain — the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande, miles of trail — but the indoor side

There’s a version of the RV trip where everything works exactly as planned. And then there’s real life, where a slide seal decides to go on strike outside Albuquerque, a hose fitting starts weeping the morning after you arrive, or you realize your tire repair kit is still sitting on the workbench at home. It