We have left the Mexican border behind. For much of the 80 mile drive from Columbus to El Paso the border was a half mile away. Looks like a brown wooden rail fence like on a horse farm. Just a marker, not a barrier of any kind. You can't cut a border swath like in New England, there is nothing here to cut, it's the Sonoran Desert. Which also means there is nobody there anyway. A huge empty place.
Then the nice country above Alamogordo, into the Mescalero Apache reservation. That high mountain area is covered in pine trees, but more sparse and without much understory. Beautiful country. Then into the town of Ruidoso and Lincoln County. Famous for the Lincoln County War that got Billy the Kid started. Historic markers every few miles related to those events.
Finally arriving at Bottomless Lakes State Park, so named because they are fairly deep sinkholes and such high salinity that swimmers float very easily, having a hard time diving down. Yet they have lots of signs for PFD use anyway.
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| Sierra Blanca |
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| When they say "Oversize" here they really mean it! |
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| A fifth wheel hauling a utility trailer? |
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| At Bottomless Lakes SP |
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