Geo: 32.6966, -103.128It was a cold morning, just 39 degrees, when we left Van Horn at 8:30 AM. Fortunately it warmed up nicely and we finished the day in the 70's. We turned the car north and headed through the mountains for New Mexico. It was a two hour ride thorough the desert. The owner of the hotel warned us to be gassed up and ready for a drive where there is nothing out there, and he was right. The drive took us through what I always think of when I think desert…dry, rocky, sandy ground with scatterings of silver sage and cactus, and patches of yellow grass on flat ground bordered on the west by mountains. They call it mountains. It is the Guadalupe Mountains. They are not high as one might expect, and certainly
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