I'll leave the spelling to a better man than I.
I've been through it several times. Stopped for gasoline, got panhandled by a Native American man about 40 years old. The city is in the Rio Grande Valley, with the river flowing south. Volcanic cinder cones and mesas west of the river, the snow-capped Sandia Mountains to the east. Desert climate, but cold enough to snow several times in the winter. Furious thunderstorms on hot summer afternoons. Chunks of winter ice make it just about that far south on the river before completely melting. Some good Mexican food restaurants. Refinery to the southeast, and a military airbase nearby. Grass--usually brown and dry--is the predominant natural vegetation. Trees visible on the higher slopes of the Sandia. Habitual highway construction near the junction of I-40 and I-25 (or is it I-15?), at least one lane always blocked. An hour from the terminus of the Santa Fe Trail. Los Alamos, famous as the site where the nuclear bomb was invented during World War II, is not too far away either. I could go on, but I won't.
