Traveling from Arizona to San Antonio, Texas for another High School graduation requires us to travel through the bottom corner of New Mexico.
Just across the Arizona/New Mexico border is a “ghost town” called Steins. We stopped here on the way back from attending a high school graduation in San Antonio and I have created a seperate post for this.
One of the things memorable about New Mexico is the openess, the empty spaces, and the isolation.
Another memorable item is the extent of government waste. Such as this Border Patrol check point – Millions of dollars spent to create this checkpoint, and it is not even being used. There are barricades across the entrance!
I guess that is better than what we witnessed at other Border Patrol checkpoints where they stop each individual car and ask if everyone is a US citizen. You simply say yes, and they wave you through. I have wondered what they would do if you answered “Si” or “Ja” or “Jawohl”! What is interesting about this is the fact that none of the big rigs, the commercial trucks pulling a 45 foot cargo trailer loaded with hundreds of illegal aliens are stopped. No questions asked! They simply drive through!
We also saw many dust devils, whirly winds, mini tornadoes, heat created wind twists.
A few miles to the west of Las Cruces, New Mexico, standing on a bluff overlooking the highway, is a very large statue of a roadrunner.
This statue is made from pieces of trash. It looks very impressive from a distance and it is only after stopping at the rest area behind the hill and walking up to it, that you can see the individual pieces of trash.
Very well done.
Unfortunately, the only coyotes we saw were roadkill along the sides of the highway.
TTFN
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