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John's got one thing to say to us and he already rehearsed it a couple times. Hey, that's Cindy. He's hell of a ditch. Hell of a ditch, you think? One hell of a ditch. That's great. And Kevin, you got... You're all set? Yeah. What are we saying? I said this is one hell of a ditch. Really? Well, let me ask you... Okay, we are all hard time. Boys, one hell of a ditch. Pretty good. Wait for the charcoal to do one more. This is amazing to me. Get a feel for it. Yeah. A lot of bridges do that. I'm glad because they probably crash. Yeah, right. I think it's a little flexibility. All right. I could go on a drag. Okay, I'm rolling. I was just hoping to get a little bit more spontaneous this time. So...
Man, there's a hell of a ditch. We're gonna... Then I'd want money. I'm just gonna... You're 265. Okay, Maui's rolling. All right. What do you think of this bridge? I love it. It's fabulous. Very interesting. Of course, scenic. Well, you know, I'm... I guess you're typical tourists. I'm from Canada. We're on our honeymoon. We just... We're married a couple weeks ago. And we're taking the scenic tour of the states. Eventually, we're gonna arrive in Santa Cruz, California, where we're gonna be living. But this is really fabulous. I mean, the beauty, the mountains, and the bridge itself is really lovely. Yeah, it's an impressive structure. And we were curious about how tall it is. How far it is from here to the water? 850 feet. 850 feet. And I guess at about six. Yeah. They said they could put like a 75-story building in any sense. Well... I had no idea that New Mexico was so beautiful.
I mean, it's hot in the daytime and cool at night. And the mountains are spectacular, really. That was... I was surprised as well at the... The Rio Grande Canyon, I didn't know it started this far up. And so that was... That was really nice to see, too. How about you do something for me? I'm always willing to try to push it a little bit to say, we're on our honeymoon. We love this place here. I don't know. I mean, I don't want to make it too corny, but... Yeah, no, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, okay. We'll wait a bit far. There's another one. We'll have a gap in this piece of it. Are you ready? Well, you know, in Canada, there's a couple of real popular honeymoon spots, you know. But I think this is fabulous. I certainly recommend people come to New Mexico, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah. It's real nice. And could you just tell me that we're on our honeymoon? Yeah, we're on our honeymoon first two weeks. And we've got another few weeks left, so we actually are going to get to California. But hey, it's the start of a wonderful life.
Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you.
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I will. I'll finish that. That's about three hours of vacation. No. Well, that's a fine employer. 25 miles from Canada. 35 miles from Canada. What? So? Yeah. I'm going to go see it. I'm going to take one more picture. If you don't mind, I'll give a picture of you taking the picture.
Thanks. What was the dance? You were standing there going, whoa, I don't like this. You ready? No, I don't like this. It's too bouncy. I hope this adrenaline is flowing through me. I can take off and fly. That's what we feel like doing when we're up this high, right? That's great.
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Series
¡Colores!
Episode Number
802
Episode
Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico’s Historic Highway Bridges
Raw Footage
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
Producing Organization
KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
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New Mexico PBS (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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Episode Description
This is raw footage for ¡Colores! # 802 “Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico’s Historic Highway Bridges." From conquering the flash floods of the Rio Puerco to the beauty of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico’s historic highway bridges have one thing in common -- they played an important role in linking the state together. This ¡Colores! celebrates how these Bridges were built in the spirit of efficiency and progress, are artistic structures in their own right, and have become manifestations of our state’s unique history. This program is produced with local historians David Kammer & Chris Wilson
Description
"Ditch"; "Cool"; Rio; 130
Raw Footage Description
This file contains raw footage of interviews with tourists along the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.
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Raw Footage
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Unedited
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Duration
00:21:10.403
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Producing Organization: KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
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KNME
Identifier: cpb-aacip-a3318822b29 (Filename)
Format: Betacam
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Duration: 00:20:00
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Chicago: “¡Colores!; 802; Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico’s Historic Highway Bridges; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge,” New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 22, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-80vq8bxq.
MLA: “¡Colores!; 802; Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico’s Historic Highway Bridges; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.” New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 22, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-80vq8bxq>.
APA: ¡Colores!; 802; Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico’s Historic Highway Bridges; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Boston, MA: New Mexico PBS, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-80vq8bxq