Tag: New Mexico

10-06 New Mexico Signs

From various trips through west Texas and New Mexico. Text and Images © Andrew Auten – All Rights Reserved

10-06 The Blue Swallow

In 2006 my wife and I drove from Houston, Texas to Tucumcarri, New Mexico in one straight drive.  We did the drive having slept for only one hour the previous night.  Neither one of us remember anything about the trip ...

02-04-10_01 New Mexico

We had been on the road for a couple of weeks.  We were on the way home, at our last stop just outside of town.  I said to myself, “I am a changed man.” http://www.artmound.com/mounds/02-04-10_01/index.html Text and images © Andrew ...

01-05-10 – The Kings Rest, Part 3

At first I did it because I loved to travel. Why not?  Gas was cheap at 39-cents a gallon for hi-test and my champagne ’72 Continental drank deeply.  The national speed limit was 85 and some highways in the sticks ...

12-21-09 – The Kings Rest, Part 2

Yep, more pictures from my favorite crap-spot, The King’s Rest in Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://www.artmound.com/mounds/12-21-09_01/index.html Text and images © Andrew Auten – All Rights Reserved.

The King’s Rest Part 1

I went to college at the College Of Santa Fe in New Mexico.  I didn’t have any money and, in terms of intellectual & monetary investment, I was high-risk.  I studied art but my teachers always seemed disgusted with me  ...