Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert

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  • Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
    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.) MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 10 | 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.) MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 10 | THE TEXAS SPUR

    ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 7

    New Mexico likes to call itself the Land of Enchantment.

    And so it is, quite often, for their nextdoor neighbors the Texans.

    After all, their kinship stretches back a good ways—to the era when both were parts of old Mexico, and before that, the domain of nomadic or settled indigenous tribes.

    But there truly is, to my way of thinking, something tantalizing and magnetic about the…