New Mexico

Year of First Visit – 1995
Point of Entry – I-10 near LasCruces

I remember New Mexico not looking like the pictures. Not better than the pix. Not worse than the pix. Just different.

Of course, I didn't get to the places I'd like to visit. We traveled through both the north and the south paths through the state (I-10 and I-40) with several stops along the way. That just didn't take me to the places I wanted to go.

Carlsbad Caverns
White Sands
Santa Fe
Four Corners

And I'd like to go to Truth or Consequences. My grandmother's brother settled there for health reasons after WWII so I have family in the area who I never met.

So for for now most of my New Mexico memories are yet to be written. And I know they'll look different from the pix in my mind.