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UPFRONT ABQ's Up, Up and Away While its reputation has recently been cemented into popular consciousness by an unlikely pair of meth manufacturers, New Mexico's biggest city has for 50 years been the scene of the world's largest ballooning gathering. And while Breaking Bad has bizarrely boosted tourism to the city, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta annually draws almost one million visitors who arrive to watch while as many as 600 hot-air and gasfilled balloons are launched over nine days at the start of October. Purportedly Earth's most photographed event, it includes mass ascensions, dawn patrols and – on the ground – chainsaw carving competitions. There's also the Special Shape Rodeo, when multitudes of non-standard balloons Yodas, animals, cars, cartoon characters, spacemen, virtually any shape balloon imaginable – lift into…

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Getaway (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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