Lonely Planet Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque [Paperback]

Kim Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

Discover Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque

Wipe grilled buffalo from your chops and watch lizards scurry up 1000-year-old adobe at Taos Pueblo.
Align your chakras at Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs, where stressed-out Pueblo Indians soaked for millennia.
Play `Name That Georgia O'Keeffe Painting' and re-enact scenes from City Slickers in Abiquiu.
Admire your new turquoise bracelet glinting in the sun as you search for deals on cow skulls in Albuquerque.

In This Guide:

One local Albuquerque author, 420 hours of on-the-ground research, 38 detailed maps, a bounty of opinionated reviews.
Special road-trip chapter with jaunts to Route 66, Carlsbad Caverns, alien-crazy Roswell, ghost towns and open highway.

Editorial Reviews

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Best for curious and independent-minded travelers' --Wall Street Journal

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; 2 edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1740599659
• ISBN-13: 978-1740599658
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #547,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #35 in Books > Travel > United States > States > New Mexico

More About the Author

Kim has been writing about travel since the day after she graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1984.

Kim currently writes guides for: Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket; Hawai'i; Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque; Backroads of New England; and a 50 deck box of travel cards.

Since the mid-1990s Kim has also written other travel books about: Boston; New England; the Southwest; Florida; Miami & the Keys; USA; Best Places to Stay in New England and Best Places to Stay in Hawai'i.

As for web work, Kim serves the City Expert for www.homeandabroad.com on the six major Hawaiian islands, Cape Cod, and Boston; is a Hawai'i lodging specialist for www.away.com; writes about top luxury, romantic, and beach destinations in North America for www.orbitz.com and www.away.com; was an early member of www.guidebookwriters.com; and contributed to www.flyguides.com.

As for TV and radio, Kim has done 20-city radio tours to promote the Great Destinations series for Countryman Press (for whom she serves as an Acquisitions Editor). She also recently appeared on Comcast TV's Newsmakers to discuss autumnal outings in New England; on CNN Headline News to discuss fall foliage travel in New England; and on the Valerie D'Elia Travel Show (syndicated but based in NYC) to discuss the merits of travelling in Massachusetts.

From 1999-2007 she wrote Yankee magazine's Editor's Picks for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. During the late 1990s, she appeared on WCVB-TV's Chronicle as a Boston expert; wrote for National Geographic Traveler and Yankee magazines; and served as an editor for Boston Magazine's annual New England Travel.

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, she contributed to guides published by Frommer's (New England; Canada; Mexico, Belize & Guatemala), Fodor's (Boston; New England; Cape Cod; Access USA), Insight (New England & Boston), Berlitz, and Rodale.

Kim founded Bindu Press in 2001 as a means to more widely distribute her fine art black and white photography. Lushly printed blank note cards are available through retail stores and the Bindu Press web site. The Press is also a book packager for artists and other photographers.

Kim runs Good Karma Publishing (the venture connected with T'ai Chi Chih) which produces, disseminates, and distributes materials by Justin Stone about T'ai Chi Chih to students and teachers worldwide.

Kim has been practicing T'ai Chi Chih, a moving meditation, since 1992 and teaching since 1999. She credits the practice with many extraordinary benefits, chief among them -- an increase in creativity and intuition. (And productivity!!)

She edits The Vital Force, a 24-page quarterly journal dedicated to T'ai Chi Chih teachers and students worldwide.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Restaurant reviews were right on, February 11, 2008

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Katrina Eldridge (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque (Paperback)

We were staying with a local in Taos whose restaurant reviews for the area echoed the ones in the book. One of the restaurant listings even mentioned the exact dish she always get at that locale (Tres Colores).

One addition - try to make happy hour at The Alley (the oldest building in town, used to be a trading post) which is just steps off the plaza (where they have free concerts on Thursday nights in the summer) for some really incredible (and cheap) margaritas.

We didn't go wrong with the restaurant or tourist attraction recommendations in Albuquerque either. I thought this was a GREAT guide!

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Santa Fe, February 27, 2008

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque (Paperback)

We were heading to Northern New Mexico for the first time and this book helped us plan our trip for maximum enjoyment. What an amazing area!