HEY... the place i was all summer is the number one road trip... here you go. visit. we can do this!

1. THE “ENCHANTED CIRCLE” AND THE “SANTA FE TRAIL”
Here’s a first example; since all of New Mexico has fewer people than Phoenix, Arizona, most motoring routes are pleasantly uncrowded. Starting in Albuquerque (“Old Town,” Sandia Peak Tram, San Felipe Mission,) you pick up a self-drive car and head along a sparsely-trafficked State Highway 14 (“the Turquoise Trail”) past the gold-mining towns of Golden, Madrid and Cerrillos to Santa Fe (Old Plaza, Palace of the Governors, Sans Miguel Mission, adobe-style homes). Next day, you tour the Indian pueblos on U.S. 4/285, then head for Chimayo (Spanish weavers and woodcarvers) and Taos for overnight. You tour Taos (birthplace of southwestern art) next morning, then proceed along the “Enchanted Circle” in late afternoon by driving to little Red River, a gold-mining village of the 1860s, where you can stay for, say, two nights at one of six guest ranches nearby. Next, drive past the ghost town of Elizabethtown to Eagle Nest and Angel Fire, then double back to enjoy a 23-mile drive on “Scenic U.S. 64” through Cimarron Canyon State park and to the historic, well-preserved Santa Fe Trail town of Cimarron. Next day, tour “Old Cimarron,” then head south on State Highway 21 and due east on Highway 199 to Springer, and then south on Interstate 25 to the village of Wagon Mound. Continue to Watrous, detour to Fort Union, then return to the Interstate for 18 further miles to the Victorian town of Las Vegas (New Mexico). Next day, take Interstate 25 past the Pecos National Monument to Albuquerque, ending a week of awesome vistas and cultures.