Frontier Restaurant in Albuquerque New Mexico. And it all came back to me. The cowboy art, the crappy booths, the waft of fresh tortillas and green chili. It was like my whole body was all of the sudden smiling. If my soul has a home, it’s Reno, NV where I’ve lived for the last 15 years. If my gut has a home, it’s the frontier restaurant. After a plate of enchiladas and a sweet roll, I hit the road to Santa Fe. Silouettes of the New Mexico landscape cruised past the economical windows of the blue Nissan Versa. I couldn’t see what was there, but I was a blind man passing the coffee table, reaching out for a light switch and finding a bottle of beer in the fridge from muscle memory. When I woke up in the morning there was work to do. Shoot some video at the New Mexico Department of Transportation office, which is a cool old institutional building on Cerrillios road. For lunch we went to La Choza. It has a dirt parking lot and dudes playing music on picnic chairs. I had a burrito with green chili. It was amazeballz. More shooting. Interviewing a few of the web site development team on how they used Adobe web software to create and maintain the NMDOT Website. Kristy Fifelski (Dalton) from Government Social Media directed and produced the shoot for Government Technology Magazine. Did some more shooting, got a bunch of B-Roll from their on staff videographer (the city street, aerial and freeway shots in the video) then headed straight back to the Frontier Restaurant for another burrito. I went to college at the University of New Mexico, which is right across the street from the Frontier. It’s basically the school cafeteria. We ate there all the time. My gut was home for another few minutes. Then I blasted back to the airport and was off the ground and out of New Mexico air space in less than 24 hours. But I had 4 enchiladas, two burritos and 2 sweet rolls in that time and also did a days worth of work. Not bad. -M]]>
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