New Mexico Owners BS Thread

About 0430 ish........ That is if things play out okay with my work stuff.

 

Hey! Look at us!

 

I'm game. So 4:30am huh? I'm gonna need some coffee for that drive. Cuba by sunrise!!!!

It's about an 8 hour drive, correct?

That's some hard-core mall crawling. Did anyone get stuck?

 

I think about 6.5-7 ish. Via the GPS in my work car.........from Paseo del Volcun and I-40 it is 6 hrs.

 

Hey, NM crowd....my wife and I are toying with moving out your way. We have horses, and land over here (FL coast) is getting ridiculous (expect to pay $20k per acre of cleared land). I used to work for Intel in Oregon, was thinking about checking the ABQ campus to see if they'd want me back. Anyway, was wanting to find out a little about land availability out your way, and how you like it out there. We were thinking about the corridor between ABQ and Santa Fe. Looks like room to stretch out, horseback ride, and off-road....provided we can afford pasture land/house/water...

 

That is an awesome shot!

 

Who's little car is that?! Silas not driving the dragon that day?

 

That'll be a breeze. So I guess we should figure out who all is planning on driving up together, exchange some phone #'s, and pick a meetup spot.

 

I'd look into the situation with Intel first. I have a couple family members that work over there, and from what I hear, they're scaling back their operation and offering early retirement packages to folks.

Between ABQ and SF you're going to have pretty much one Indian Reservation after another from I-25 west to the Rio Grande. East of I-25 I believe there is some public land, but it's dry out there and undeveloped so the cost to run power and sink a well might be prohibitive. West of SF you've got national forest between the city and the Rio, same situation to the east.

I'd say your best bets would be Placitas, but there are water issues up there as well (water is deep, and the ground is rock, so drilling wells is $$$), and you can expect to pay some $$$ for any flat ground (lots of hilly terrain). I'm sure you can find land out on N. Hwy 14, and I wouldn't rule out Edgewood & the east mountains if you're willing to make a drive. You can get land on the cheap out there, and there are some really nice spreads if you've got the cash.

 

NM Moab Caravan thread

 

Last year we took 550 up from Bern and met at the Home Depot parking lot. As far as a list of numbers.......I'll pm you mine and we can go from there????

 

Yeah, but that thread never seems to get any action. You guys are always in here BS-ing.

Whitecloud, sounds good man. Your PM will be returned w/my contact info as well.

 

Silas'. The Green Dragon is armless right now.

 

Ahh... Getting ready for Moab I see.

 

Got Silas' CB TX/RX unit installed tonight. Still have to install the antenna and tune it but got the cable run. I'll get some nice pics done up when we finish it.

 

Lets see it!


I enjoyed the drive at 4am last year. I love driving when the sun is coming up, its second to the joy I get driving at night when its raining.

 

x2 on everything, especially the night raining drive, i just hate waking up that early

 

Road trips are enjoyable. Definitely don't mind them

 

We drove through Moab just after the sun came up yesterday. But that was after having been on the road for about 19 hours already. Made it a bit less awesome.

 

Thanks for the info BigFishAllDay