Vacancy at the Blue Swallow, Tucumcari, NM
©2012 Bruce Berman
The Blue Swallow Motel is on Historic Route 66 (The “Mother Road”) in Tucumcari, NM.
It has been open since 1939.
VACANCY AT THE BLUE SWALLOW
INJURED TRAVELER
February 27, 2016 No Comments
Daragh Vaughn from Dublin Ireland at McDonald’s in Truth or Consequences, NM. He had had surgery for a genetic deformity. He already had the same surgery on his other hand. “To top that,” he says in his Irish brogue, “I’m a piano player!”
Injured Traveler, Truth or Consequences,
New Mexico, 2010American HighwayMusiciansNew MexicoU.S.60
Post Number One: Searching For Russell Lee
©Bruce Berman
May 2010
This is the highway west of Magdalena, New Mexico, heading to Datil and Pie Town. This is a road that Russell Lee traveled many times, I am sure, when he needed to resupply himself for his adventure in Pie Town, 70 miles to the west. He came back down this road, kept going, and got re-stocked in Socorro. In 1937, the road was dirt. Now it’s two lane blacktop. Traffic is sparse. The land does not feel desolate, but it is vast. Today, when heading west up into the mountains it’s not easy to even remember the brutal Interstate or the homogenizing Walmart world you’ve left behind.