Travel

Griggs: Dateline New Orleans

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David H. Griggs standing on the levee at the French Quarter Festival, with a freighter sailing past on the Mississippi. Courtesy photo

 

By DAVID H. GRIGGS
Formerly of Los Alamos

A Month In New Orleans

I sat on the levee and watched the broad Mississippi River flow past. I munched on a succulent crawfish pie, and nursed a refreshing WWOZ Mango Freeze.

Behind me on the Accura Stage, Allen Toussaint entertained the French Quarter Festival with such old favorites as Southern Nights, Summertime, Mother-in-Law, Fortune Teller, and A Certain Girl. The deck of the ocean-going freighter towered Read More

New Bus Shelter Built At White Rock Visitor Center

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A Bandelier/County partnership project includes construction of a wooden shelter adjacent to the White Rock Visitor Center on N.M. 4, which will replace the tent shelter currently used by people waiting to take the bus to Bandelier. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The new wooden bus shelter is designed with the look and feel of Bandelier in mind. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
A Bandelier Preservation crew has built a wooden bus shelter adjacent to the White Rock Visitor Center on N.M. 4.

Bandelier Superintendent Jason Read More

New Mexico’s Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail Front-runner In USA Today Contest

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STATE News:

New Mexico is known as the epicenter for green chile and its most beloved culinary treasure, the green chile cheeseburger.

USA Today announced the 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards, and the New Mexico True Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail is a front-runner. The New Mexico Tourism Department is asking that residents display their pride and vote for New Mexico’s beloved Cheeseburger Trail.

With more than 100 stops on the Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail it is truly a one-of-a-kind destination for travelers. Green chile cheeseburgers are featured from across the state ranging from local Read More

African Prince Visiting Los Alamos: ‘Elders Are Revered’

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Prince ‘Zuko’  Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa and his wife Nosizwe visit Chimayo. Courtesy photo
 
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos attracts international attention as well as visitors from around the world. One of those individuals who recently crossed oceans and time zones to visit the town was Prince “Zuko” Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa and his wife Nosizwe from the AmaZizi Tribe of the AbaThembu Kingdom in South Africa.

Originally, Zuko planned to perform at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, as well as Los Alamos’ ScienceFest this weekend, Read More

Governor Praises Los Alamos ScienceFest: ‘It’s Great … A Festival For Smart People!’

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Gov. Susana Martinez addresses the crowd during today’s press conference at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Tourism Secretary Rebecca Latham, left, and Gov. Susana Martinez watch short films produced by New Mexico True along with the audience. ‘I never get tired of them,’ Martinez said.
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Gov. Susana Martinez chose the Los Alamos Nature Center as the location for today’s press conference announcing new data that shows the New Mexico True advertising campaign vastly

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Sherpa Visiting Los Alamos Shares Wonders Of Nepal

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Himalayan tour guide Phuri Kitar Sherpa is visiting friends this week in Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Phuri Kitar Sherpa is visiting Los Alamos as part of his third trip to the U.S.

Sherpa owns and operates Himalayan Friends Trekking in Kathmandu, Nepal and is in town visiting with the family of Odalyes Fernandez. Fernandez is the owner of Bilingual Montessori in White Rock.

“My daughter Diana lived in Nepal for four years and she and Phuri became friends,” Fernandez said. “I’ve trekked with his company in Nepal.” Read More

Tourism Booming Thanks To ‘New Mexico True’

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By REBECCA LATHAM
NM Tourism Cabinet Secretary

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to join Gov. Susana Martinez as she delivers an important message across the Land of Enchantment: tourism is on the rise and is bringing dollars and jobs to New Mexico.

For the third straight year, New Mexico saw record-breaking tourism growth, with 32.7 million people traveling our state in 2014. That’s 500,000 more visitors than in 2013, a boost that is exposing more people than ever before to our cultural heritage and unparalleled adventure.   

In fact, since Governor Martinez came into office, Read More

Solo Traveler: Delaying Dreams

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Solo Traveler
By SHERRY HARDAGE
Delaying Dreams

If there is one thing everybody learns eventually, it is that nothing is under our control.

We might think we have control as we work to earn money to pay bills, keep our lives organized, and discipline our wayward children. But just as every child is unpredictable, so is the rest of life.

In 2002 I read The Female Nomad by Rita Gelman. It was her memoir about going from rich movie producer’s wife, living in a big house in LA, to owning nothing more than she could carry. She began an adventure to live at large in the world. During the next 20 years she visited Read More

United States Is First Country To Reach Pluto

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Despite traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it took four and a half hours for this photo to reach Earth as it crossed the 3 billion miles between here and Pluto. Courtesy/The White House

 

The WHITE HOUSE News:

This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto — and the first country to explore the entire classical solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe has been making its way to Pluto since Jan. 19, 2006, and has been providing the world with the sharpest Read More

New Mexicans To Ride The Havana Express

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NMJW News:
 
History is being made with a group of New Mexicans traveling to Cuba for the first time since the US legalized travel there earlier this year.
 
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop is sponsoring a trip to the land of Rumba, Ritmo and Rum with the theme “Havana, Then and Now.”
 
Cuba is the birthplace of the Cuba Libre, the Cha-Cha, Mambo and Latin Jazz and travelers on the Jazz Workshop tour can drink in the rhythmic music for seven days and six nights starting March 16th through March 21st 2016.
 
This is the first organized trip to Havana from the New Mexico Jazz Workshop
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