They call New Mexico the Land of Enchantment, and I don’t think it’s all about the peyote, either. If you want to fall in love with New Mexico, just visit. If you can’t go there, pick up a copy of the movie Off the Map, and you’ll get a small taste of the beauty.

Off the Map enchanted me to my core. I laughed and I cried and I stared in awe. The desert is as the sea. The horizon is endless, and it flows around and connects the world beyond. Deep, right?

The first time I went to New Mexico, I went with a friend whose family had a cabin in the mountains outside of Santa Fe. We had no electricity or running water. We groomed ourselves from a box of baby wipes. We removed our watches. We ate when we were hungry and slept when we were tired. She meditated. I wrote.

That was thirteen years ago, and I still refuse to put my watch back on.

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