Moving Companies and moving services New Mexico, NM

     If you can, drive to New Mexico, or at least through it (Route 66, which runs across the state, is a great ride). Though New Mexico's sunset colored landscape, broken by sharp canyons and sudden mountains, seems to sprawl out forever, an airplane window doesn't do it justice. But it's New Mexico's people, mixing in a haze of Hispanic, Anglo and Native American cultures that you'll be most sorry to miss. New Mexico was settled for thousands of years by Pueblo tribes before Francisco Coronado, a Spanish explorer searching for the fabled seven cities of gold, arrived in 1540. He never did find them, but what he left behind him was just as valuable. Since then, New Mexico's Latin and native flavors, rhythms and traditions have commingled and absorbed newer American ones (New Mexico became a territory in 1848, after the Mexican War and a state in 1912). In Northern New Mexico, many families trace their ancestry back to 18th century Spanish settlers, while in the Southern part of the state, more recent arrivals from Mexico continue to bring new energy to a timeless land.

     Now that you'll be living in New Mexico, there are a couple facts you'll want to keep in mind:

• New Mexico's population is 1,819,046. The state capital is Santa Fe (incidentally, Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the U.S., having been founded in 1609).
• The Rio Grande River runs from one end of New Mexico to the other, and is the state's lifeline. Ground water is a scarce commodity in New Mexico, and the state is so dry that 3/4ths of New Mexico's roads are left unpaved because it's cheap and there's no rain to wash them away.
• In certain isolated villages in north-central New Mexico, the descendents of explorers and conquistadores still speak a form of 16th century Spanish that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
• The world's first nuclear weapon was detonated in July, 1945 at the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo.
• Nuclear and defense research are still big business in New Mexico. Large government run facilities at Los Alamos and White Sands employ thousands. In fact, one in four New Mexico workers is employed by the federal government.
• In New Mexico, it's against the law for a woman to appear unshaven in public.