Okay, here’s another new blog update that I’ll try to make a regular staple, much as I do with my Space Updates and what not.
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I’m an outdoorsy type of person. It’s not even funny, some might even judge it to be unhealthy. Hey, at least I get to breath some fresher air than some naysayers may have access too; recirculating around their room countless times under the hum of the air conditioner.
I need my space. I’m probably the only person who was born and raised in an urban setting that finds a scene like this to be completely sexy.
Call me crazy. Call me a Kansan. (Or call me both!)
Despite appreciating the flat and brown that city slickers look right through, sigh, and say “there’s nothing out here,” I probably couldn’t live outside of Dodge City (which is about that flat) for very long. It’s the fact that it is en-route to perhaps one of the least recognized states in the union, New Mexico, that I’ve grown to love the space that Earth can provide so much.
Often confused with the country that bears a similar name, its usually just shrugged off as having nothing more than high deserts, nuclear bombs, and aliens. There’s much more; hence its nickname, “The Land of Enchantment.” As the pictures at the end of this post will show, there is quite a contrast between the landscapes New Mexico can provide.
The easiest way that I can explain my obsession with New Mexico and other states in the desert Southwest is how a cocaine addict might have first gotten hooked on the good stuff. New Mexico is only a gateway drug to the beauty farther West, and a rather spectacular beauty at that.
I make it out there one or two times a year to visit some relatives living outside of Santa Fe, but for as long as I can remember, there has always been an anticipation in going, and it’s perhaps that anticipation that has compelled me to blog about it. I love New Mexico and the wild, untamed landscape it still provides - in everywhere corner of the state. It’s got space, fresh air, and some of the most under-appreciated but spectacular scenery in the entire country. I guess that’s why you could call me a starving granola.
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Pictures:
“Dry, flat, brown and beautiful” - http://www.travelpod.com/users/technotrekker/overland05.1142502480.01-flat.jpg
Santa Fe Mount Baldy - yours truly, please give a shout out if you use it on your page 
Jemez Canyon - http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=318&size=550×550_mb&ptp_photo_id=292860