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THRIFT STORE ADVENTURES
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Cedar Crest, New Mexico
The first time I traveled to Cedar Crest, New Mexico, it was because I wanted to see Triangle Grocery.
The store appears in the episode of Better Call Saul where Chuck, the chronically disapproving older brother of the lead character, Jimmy McGill, decides he is going to face down his electricity allergy. Chuck’s belief in this allergy has led him to live an increasingly cloistered life. One where he seldom, if ever, leaves the house — and an element of his effort at recovery focuses on going to the grocery store so that he can resume a more normal life.
In real life, Triangle Grocery is not located in Albuquerque where the story takes place; it is located twenty-one miles east in the town of Cedar Crest, but the fact that stories focus more on the internal reality of the characters than the external reality of where the stories takes place did not stop me from being curious about Triangle Grocery, and so with the goal of seeing the real grocery store where Chuck had his scripted panic attack, my mother and I set out for Cedar Crest, New Mexico.
The Turquoise Trail
While Cedar Crest is east of Albuquerque, it is just north of the Village of Tijeras, placing it at the southern end of the Turquoise Trail, a…
