New Mexico Travel

New Mexico native and travel and food writer Carolyn Graham goes beyond the standard restaurant guide to detail her personal experiences traveling and eating around the state. The result is a distinctive road map of flavors, ingredients, and fusions that bring these New Mexico food trails to life.

Imagine a place where dunes of white sand rise taller than a house and seemingly forever into the horizon, where a trail’s route shifts every day as wind remolds the terrain, where more than 800 animal species call an inhospitable desert home, where you can walk the shores of an ancient lake that mammoths and saber-toothed cats once drank from. The place is real: It’s called White Sands National Park. But with the park’s incredible size of nearly 228 square miles, how can you ensure that you see its main sights when vacationing or driving through? That’s what Best Sights to See at ...

Wanda Yohn’s life has taken her to so many interesting places—from her farm in New Mexico to snow-covered mountains in Central Oregon to the presidential library of John F. Kennedy to Westminster Abbey to the Coliseum in Rome. She has sat on the steps of the temple in Jerusalem; rode a camel in Jordan; skipped on the Great Wall of China; snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia; visited the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands; experienced giant sequoias and wondrous azaleas in California; viewed great art in many museums; marveled at God’s handiwork in Alaska; and so ...