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SPOTLIGHT:
Guidebook America Travel Living Series
Series:
Travel Living by Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam
As a travel writer not only have I traveled most of the United
States but I have lived in many different areas as well for short
periods of time throughout my adult life. In doing so I have been
able to “pause” as a traveler and fully immerse and experience the
sub-culture around me, mingling with the locals yet keeping my
perspective as a traveler intact.
Sometimes this was not always easy to do for when actually living
in any area one is still subject to life, duties, obligations and
daily routine. Domestic responsibilities beckon as usual from yard
work to trips to the dentist, taking children to school and soccer
games, going to work, etc., and though even weekends may be tied up
with these activities, experiencing travel as a transient resident
is very fulfilling, offering a well-rounded insight to other
cultures, the people and the environment.
My “travel living” has included the South, the Hawaiian Islands,
the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, and the Southwest. All were
different, all unique, offering many things that could not be
experienced anywhere else.
Travel Living in New
Mexico by Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam
New Mexico is my passion,
my love, my home, and because of this I have tried to
experience as many areas of this magical state as possible;
north, south, central, and east so far. This series in
“travel living” encompasses over thirty years of doing so
and half of it has been in the state of New Mexico. I can
never get enough. Northern New Mexico and the Sangre de
Cristos, the Enchanted Circle full of excellent skiing,
amazing vistas and friendly people; southern New Mexico and
its isolated Gila Forest, the off-beat artsy town of Silver
City, the Black Range, and Elephant Butte Lake to central
New Mexico and sunny, blue-skied Albuquerque and its
watermelon-colored Sandias, its shopping, and dining and
Balloon Fiesta, to the high eastern plains and their
agricultural near-West Texas lifestyle. The more I knock off
my list, the more I add to it. To more fully explore these
areas and to appreciate each, they are broken down by cities
or towns within New Mexico.
