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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

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

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

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,

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

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