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Article: Changeless Chama Valley.(New Mexico travel narrative)
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- October 1, 1999
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O'Keeffe country, a great train ride - and the occasional cosmic event - make this one of New Mexico's best drives
It slices the late-afternoon sky over northern New Mexico's Chama Valley - a turquoise streak, a shooting star.
I am alone by the side of the road in a tiny village called Los Brazos. With no one to confirm that this daylight meteorite is real, I look for some proof, past the purple Brazos Cliffs and back up to where space and sky meet.
As if there would really be another one right there.
A minor cosmic event like this one always comes as a surprise, but maybe a little less so in this part of New Mexico. The region seems to ...