?Road days’: As Route 66 hits its centennial, this Santa Fe road tripper is having his moment

SANTA FE — Willie Lambert remembers a time in his life when he felt trapped. In the late 1990s, he was working as a pit boss at Camel Rock Casino on Tesuque Pueblo, where his customers seemed as stuck as he was — losing at times everything they had on games of chance he was being paid to oversee. “I knew I was getting close to quitting,” said Lambert, now 73, speaking to me at his condo in ...