Julie McNiven’s blog Vox 2008-04-09T20:27:35Z McVegan's World http://juliemcniven.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398ca4f3a0004/ Getting a taste of luxury this week only! tag:vox.com,2008-04-09:asset-6a00e398ca4f3a000400e398ee8e8e0004 2008-04-09T20:27:35Z 2008-04-09T20:27:35Z McVegan's World http://juliemcniven.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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This is my parent's rich friend from college's guest house in Los Feliz. I was lucky enough to escape from under the 'Pasadena Revenge Stomper's' craziness and live in this amazing house for the week. I am loving it! My reaction to it...

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pasadena revenge stomper woman

(my computer was getting fixed and everything was erased...that's why it appears that i stopped my journey in Gallop, NM!) on another note.... what do you do when you are being bullied my the woman upstairs...well, i just got here...so i'm...

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El Rancho Lobby El Rancho Lobby2 El Rancho Sign

All of the Authenticity we desired from Santa Fe....we got in Gallup. We stayed at the beautiful El Rancho Hotel in the Jack Benny room and walked around town talking to locals and checking out some pawn shops. Gallup is centralized to many rese...

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]]> Santa Fe tag:vox.com,2008-03-27:asset-6a00e398ca4f3a000400f48ce872d50002 2008-03-27T04:09:52Z 2008-03-27T04:09:52Z McVegan's World http://juliemcniven.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom After our detour to Las Vegas we headed south to Santa Fe. We were both really excited to be going there as we thought it would be a cool, artsy place to live someday......we were very disappointed. The architecture I loved, but it lacked authen...

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Las Vegas, NM Historic Plaza Las Vegas downtown Downtown Las Vegas, NM

Las Vegas is where all the old trails would meet up so there is a lot of history in this town. It comes out of no where...which seems to be pretty common here in the SW. They have over 900 buildings on the register for Historic places and they h...

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Lonely Cow on the way to Las Vegas Conchas Lake 2, NM Conchas Lake, NM Deer family outside of Conchas Damn, NM

After talking with the owner of the Blue Swallow we decided to take a back road to Santa Fe via Las Vegas, NM. The 104 was bare with only a few other cars on the road. We passed this Lonely cow on the way. About half way to Las Vegas we came u...

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Blue Swallow Motel

Tucumcari was a great stop on 66. So many of the only motels and diners were still there...or at least their signs were. We had dinner at the Pow Wow Restaurant and breakfast the next day at 66 kicks diner. The big highlight of Tucumcari was the...

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Blue Swallow Motel

Tucumcari was a great stop on 66. So many of the only motels and diners were still there...or at least their signs were. We had dinner at the Pow Wow Restaurant and breakfast the next day at 66 kicks diner. The big highlight of Tucumcari was the...

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Groom Groom downtown Blessed Mary Menu Blessed Mary inside Blessed Mary Sign

Groom had a population of 527 I believe and felt just as desolate and eerily silenced as Mclean. Leading to town: Here is downtown: A wonderful stop we made today was a visit to the 'Blessed Mary' restaurant where there are n...

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McLean TX Phillips 66 Mclean TX downtown Mclean TX downtown 2 Mclean TX downtown 4 Mclean, TX downtown 3

Driving today made my imagination run wild....to a different time. A time where there was more than just one run down gas station and motel/cafe after another....where there were thriving businesses in the now boarded up, silent memories of what ...

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