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What an insult. You can get "Tex-Mex" in NM, but why would you. New Mexico style Mexican food is different than any other and far better. There are similarities but no equal. I remember getting tamales from the road side vendors at the Jemez Pueblo, took two beers to get a tamale down, incredible flavor but hot enough to blister the paint off your truck. There used to be a "Tastee Freeze" in Cuba that had chili burgers, great cheese burger with a NM green chili on it that would make you sweat and cry, but you couldn't put it down 'cause it tasted so good.
Rick Allen
Argentum Aevum
practicing Pastafarian
My truck paint was peeling at the time. Does that upgrade your opinion of the food, even though I was across the border in Arizona?
If you are going to be in SW Colorado for Mesa Verde I would recommend you stop at Hovenweep first, especially if you like isolated and dramatic. Chaco is an incredible place and you can hike up onto the rim to some isolated ruins. If you continue on east to Bandolier be sure to drive on down through the Valle Grande (a volcanic caldera) and stop in Jemez Springs to see the mission ruin there. Since you're from SD, you'll appreciate that your most likely danger can be the weather. Keep an eye on it. Hovenweep, Mesa Verde, Chaco, Bandolier, Jemez Springs to Albuquerque may take all the time you have available. If you head north from there through Taos you can come into Colorado and hit the Great Sand Dunes. As has been said, on any reservation you are there as a guest. They have their own rules. Have fun.
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