ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 7

Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
  • ART IN ABQ The landscape and highway-scape of northern New Mexico, through which historic Route 66 passes, lends itself at every turn to the work of painters, sculptors, architects, writers, dancers—and even bus drivers. (This sign marking an Albuquerque Rapid Transit stop on Central Avenue—old 66—fits right in.) | THE TEXAS SPUR
    ART IN ABQ The landscape and highway-scape of northern New Mexico, through which historic Route 66 passes, lends itself at every turn to the work of painters, sculptors, architects, writers, dancers—and even bus drivers. (This sign marking an Albuquerque Rapid Transit stop on Central Avenue—old 66—fits right in.) | THE TEXAS SPUR
    here, far from any other population except I-40— which, according to a 2017 count, amounted to some 14,800 vehicles daily. Friendly staff inside the shop’s clean, welllighted, spa-like space assist customers from near and far with an array of weed products, and with up-to-date information on what can be transported where. It’s a far sight from how this hamlet must have looked a hundred ye...

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