AERMOTOR and eBike Unite!

This is not your average “Run of the Mill” story my friends, oh no, this is a “Ride to the Mill” story. (And maybe a little time traveling) by BigAddison Heading out my driveway once again for my morning ride. A quick right, a quick left, and I’m heading for adventure on my Lectric eBike. …

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Migrants arrested in New Mexico

  EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ICE officers in New Mexico arrested 48 migrants in the country illegally during the first week of March. ICE took into custody migrants previously ordered removed from the country and those charged or convicted of serious crimes. The migrants were picked up in Roswell, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, according …

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Pancho Villa, Calbagata, Columbus New Mexico, Columbus NM

Pancho Villa Rides Again!

109 years later….on another cold windy dark morning in Columbus, New Mexico, Pancho Villa Rides Again. But this time, IT’S A CELEBRATION! Learn about the Calbagata here Mounted on my steel horse (my eBike), I was able to follow the 2025 Calbagata procession up Hwy 11 to the parade stop and festivities in Columbus, New …

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Concern in New Mexico as Trump admin review of national monuments continues

  Fears are also growing as the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has reported cancelling many federal leases, including two in state. Read full article here: Concern in New Mexico as Trump admin review of national monuments continues Related Reading…. Hey! We have a dog in this hunt too – Mimbres Peaks!

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Dust In The Wind? – Public Service Announcement

“All we are is dust in the wind”, so the song goes. And here in Luna County in March, it can sure feel that way. Been here for going on twenty years, and I can’t ever get used to the relentless “Winds of March”. This years windy season started exactly on March 1st, and with …

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Ben Archer Health Centers reportedly refusing care to those “unlawfully present” in U.S.

  LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Ben Archer Health Centers, which operates 11 clinics throughout Southern New Mexico, is reportedly turning away patients that don’t have birth certificates, or any other accepted way to prove citizenship. An anonymous employee of one of the clinics first reported the new policy to ABC-7, and was then …

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Documentary Explores Jewish Family’s History at the U.S.-Mexico Border

In her new documentary, “UnRaveling.” Stacey Ravel Abarbanel digs deep into the history behind her grandfather Sam Ravel, a Jewish shopkeeper in the border town of Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. Source: Documentary Explores Jewish Family’s History at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Taras Mychalewych

Hands of Enchantment – Taras Mychalewych

“On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life, There were plants and birds and rocks and things, There was sand and hills and rings” Hands of Enchantment – Taras Mychalewych 12/12/1945 – 02/13/2025 epitaph by BigAddison New to town us both, Taras landed in 2010 due to a broken …

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Hacienda Sur Luna

The Great Planes of New Mexico

What, you never heard the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “New Mexico, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plane” ??? Post by BigAddison – featured photo by John Muzio It should be plane to see by now where I’m going with this, New Mexico happens to have rights to claim what may be the …

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