Subject: hi from Helsinki

Date: Fri Aug 8 09:09:55 2008
User: damgud
Message:
tnmountainman, obviously you've missed some great parts SOUTH of i-40...although for the most part i agree. i lived up in red river (north of taos at 9,750 ft) for 7 yrs and santa fe/pecos for 21. moved here to the albuquerque area (gag) for economical reasons. glad to welcome another redhead to netcell...and being a mountainMAN i assume it's natural. did you know red hair occurs NATURALLY in less than 5% of the population??? we're a rare breed. considering the temper that generally goes with it...probly a good thing. holler next time you're NM way...i'll show you around the local haunts! roo, am hoping to make my way back to phoenix to say hi!

Date: Fri Aug 8 10:49:13 2008
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I know Albuquerque fairly well - even applied for a job at Sandia Labs decades ago. Love the Red River/Questa/Cimmarron/Mt. Wheeler area, as well as Taos (high road to Taos from Santa Fe is spectacular), as well as Santa Fe/Bandalier/Los Alamos/Jemez Springs, etc. Although I've never lived there, I 'sent' (recommended as an alternative location to live for a while) an old girlfriend to Los Alamos for a few years. She liked it fine, but eventually missed the green we have here. I like Truth or Consequences ok, and I like Hatch chilies, and I'm not saying I don't like *some* of what's south of I-40, but in the northern mountains and high desert is "where it's at", imo. Fortunately(?), I missed out on the "temper" aspect of redness (although GottaLuvIt pushes me at times). And uh....yes, it's natural (although my father used to explain my locks by saying I fell in a bucket of paint when a toddler).

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:46:31 2008
User: julia
Message:
lol Tn, your dad sounds like mine. When I was a kid, I had slightly slanted eyes. Pop told me he found me wandering the streets of Korea, put me in his duffle bag and snuck me into the US. The rascal.

Date: Sat Aug 9 18:01:15 2008
User: frw
Message:
A college buddy and I drove nonstop from Orlando Florida to Carlsbad New Mexico in the early eighties. Visited the caverns and then Bandelier National Monument on our way to Denver to see a friend of mine who had moved from Orlando a few years earlier. I knew I would love the west and that was the trip that sealed the deal. Just because New Mexico is way south of Montana doesn't mean it is way warmer. I've stayed in Gallup and warm wasn't the right word. Beautiful state.

Date: Sun Aug 10 10:34:38 2008
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I've been snowed on in Gallup in June. And snowed on in Montana in August......