We've spent the last two days in New Mexico. One in Sante Fe, a very stylish desert town full of art galleries and interesting small stores. It is one of America's oldest cities, founded by the Spanish, and has a unique feel to it - it's in the desert yet you can ski less than an hour away, it's American yet the Mexican influence is vast. New Mexico is mountainous, desertous, very dry. It is stark yet beautiful but, if you are used to green spaces and water, it can feel quite stifling after a while.
New Mexico, like Utah, feels far removed from the rest of the US. The towns we've seen have been poor with deserted main streets and many boarded up homes, restaurants, shops, gas stations, motels. It is hard to imagine how the people in these states can possibly relate to what goes on in Washington DC never mind on Wall Street or in Afghanistan.
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