Synopses & Reviews
This easy-to-use guide will take you on a tour of the best sites in New Mexico. The authorsí rating scale for significance ensures that youíll see the canít-miss locations, and their candid tips will help you better appreciate what you see.
Synopsis
Enjoy New Mexico's beautiful landscapes and rich history with the New Mexico Journey Guide. Seek out the top spots with this easy-to-use book, and don't miss the best of the best with the authors' star rating scale. Whether you're a resident, tourist or snowbird, you'll make great use of this all-in-one resource.
Synopsis
Get the all-in-one guidebook to New Mexico's ancient ruins, secret canyons, hidden waterfalls, mysterious petroglyphs, and exotic places.
It's out there. Go find it The New Mexico Journey Guide is your resource to discovering the best of New Mexico. Written by Jon Kramer and Julie Martinez, with illustrations by Vernon Morris, this informative and witty guide leads you to the most amazing sites and scenery that the Land of Enchantment can offer.
The New Mexico Journey Guide presents 49 destinations that are worth a journey, and each is given a rating (from "boring" to "shazzam") in at least one of three categories: archaeology, geology, or paleontology. Visit Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the premier archaeological site in New Mexico and one of the finest in the world. Delve into prehistory at Clayton Lake State Park, where hundreds of dinosaur tracks were revealed by a flood in 1982. Make your way into the crowning glory of America's underground at Carlsbad Canverns National Park. Jon's honest and fair rating system ensures that you find the places that are right for you and your interests.
Book Features
- Informative and entertaining guide to New Mexico's archaeology, geology, and paleontology
- Complete details on 49 sites, including driving directions
- Full-color photography and amazing illustrations
- Jon's candid tips that help you see the sites through experienced eyes
About the Author
Vernon Morris is a freelance artist, muralist and adventuring time traveler. His formal art education took place in the early 1980s at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vern's Native American (Anishinabe) roots have been a powerful influence in his life. He maintains a small quarry at Pipestone National Monument where he excavates the famous carving stone every year. He then sculpts it into pipes and ritual objects just as his ancestors did for countless generations. Vern carries his work with him into the wilds and is just as comfortable carving pipestone atop a mesa in the Southwest as sketching scenes from antiquity along the ocean in Big Sur.Julie Martinez is an explorer, naturalist, freelance artist and formal art instructor. Her appreciation for insects, plants, rocks and fossils started in childhood with a collection that has grown throughout her life. Julie graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, with a degree in Fine Arts and Biology. She initially worked as an illustrator for the medical field, but in the late 1980s began a freelance career, which she has enjoyed ever since. Julie's work is featured in many textbooks, journals and museum exhibits throughout North America. She is also a staff teacher at Minnesota School of Botanical Art. When not teaching, she travels with husband, Jon, exploring the wilds of the world.Jon Kramer is an adventurer first, and also a geologist, writer, climber and surfer (but not necessarily in that order, depending on the surf). He received his Bachelor of Science degree in geology at the University of Maryland and has pursued life as an adventuring paleontologist ever since. His interests are quite varied and include all things natural. In addition to popular travel and adventure writing, Jon has published scientific papers on critters as ancient as 2 billion-year-old bacteria and as young as 12,000-year-old mammoths. Jon travels extensively with his wife Julie, sometimes settling down for a rest in Minnesota, Florida, California and interesting points in between.