Scenery in New Mexico

Roswell, New Mexico

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September 20th 2005
We had a long travel day today. We drove from OKC to Roswell, NM which is roughly 460 miles but a lot of the day we were on a small highway that went through a lot of small towns in Texas and New Mexico. So we didn't drive over 60 m.p.h. for a lot of the trip. The scenery totally changed today....a lot of WIDE open spaces, ranches, windmills, cows and trains. We left OKC around 6:30am and arrived ... read more

North America » United States » New Mexico

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