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Tons of movies have been shot in Las Vegas, NM. If you have seen the Coen brothers film "No Country for Old Men", you may recognize this location as the store that Josh Brolin enters to buy cloths after he has slipped out of the hospital "south of the border." I chatted with the owner's daughter who filled me in on all the fun stuff about the shoot. Complete serendipity stopping into the store (not really - I just love Carhardt : )
Las Vegas, NM is an old town which was a key stopping place and mercantile center related to the Santa Fe Trail. It also is the location of the state Mental Health Hospital (as the locals say - Albuquerque got the University, Santa Fe got the Capital and Las Vegas got the Mental Health Hospital.) The result is a large number of "drop in" centers available to folks who are in transition from the hospital to the community. It also provides an interesting mix of people on the streets - all very good.
Las Vegas, NM is a great place to film movies set in the west. I ended up staying there three nights a storm closed roads as I traveled to Chaco Canyon on the west side of the mountains. The crew filming "Not Forgotten" was staying at the same I was staying. A mix of interesting and odd folks. They had clear signs wherever they were needed.
As I headed south I encountered my first Pueblo on this trip and the only one in Kansas - El Cuartelejo. It is located in a lovely valley off the plains and in a good river valley. Pressed on to Garden City, KS and then to Las Vegas, NM.
I headed south on Hwy 83 which goes from flat to badlands to hilly to flat to...for quite a ways.
I stopped briefly in Mission, SD on the Rosebud Lakota Reservation. The Sinte Gleska University is celebrating it's anniversary. I pressed on south to Graden City, KS past a number of feed lots filed with beeves ready to be sent off.
