Writing
I write about places people pass through without stopping, and what you find if you do.
Whether it’s a small town in New Mexico or somewhere farther away, I write about what’s actually there instead of what I expected to find.
Most of this work lives on New Mexico Travel Guy, where I’m currently on a questionable mission to visit every town in New Mexico and write a story about each one, with plans to wrap it up sometime before my early to mid-100s.
Where My Writing Lives
▪ New Mexico Travel Guy
Travel writing rooted in New Mexico, with occasional trips across the Southwest and beyond, focused on places, landscapes, wildlife, and what it’s actually like once you’re there. I also contributed a chapter to an upcoming Fodor’s travel guide to New Mexico.
▪ Profitable Conservation: Business Strategies That Boost Your Bottom Line, Protect Wildlife, and Conserve Biodiversity
A book about how conservation and business work together in practice, not just in theory.
Let’s Connect
If you enjoy this kind of writing and want to follow along, you can find my work at NewMexicoTravelGuy.com and on my Substack.
Author and Writer
Author of two books and numerous articles on a wide variety of topics
Writing Samples
New Mexico Travel Guy Blog
Sample Articles
- 🏜️🐍🐦Off the Grid and Into the Wild: Exploring Rodeo, NM and Portal, AZ, New Mexico Travel Guy, March 2025.
- 🚡Experience Albuquerque from Above: The Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway, New Mexico Travel Guy, March 2025.
- 🐺🍬Discover Candy Kitchen, New Mexico, Where It’s All Wolves and No Candy, New Mexico Travel Guy, November 2024.
Books
- Profitable Conservation: Business Strategies That Boost Your Bottom Line, Protect Wildlife, and Conserve Biodiversity, July 2018.
- How to Fail at Life: Lessons for the Next Generation, December 2015.
Magazine Articles
- “Can businesses practice profitable conservation?“, GreenBiz, August 18, 2018
- “When it comes to habitat, having an edge is not a good thing”, GreenBiz. August 30, 2018
- “How businesses can make half-earth a reality” (5-part series), E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, August and September 2018
- “Adventures in Kenya: Visiting the Hot Zone of Kitum Cave”, Perceptive Travel, December 2019.
- “Landing in Roswell for the Annual UFO Festival”, Perceptive Travel, March 2023.
Technical Publications and Conference Presentations
- Gaudioso, J., and Aspelin, M. (2007). Elements of Physical Security Systems II: Intrusion Detection Alarm Communication and Assessment Delay and Response [Conference].
- Gaudioso, J., and Aspelin, M. (2007). Principles of Design for a Physical Security System for Bioscience Laboratories [Conference].
- Gaudioso, J., and Aspelin, M. (2007). Elements of Physical Security Systems I: Access Controls [Conference].
Contact
mark@markaspelin.com
Location
16 Frost Road, PO Box 574
Sandia Park, NM 87047