People keep telling me NM has mountains though. Perhaps they are farther west than you were, like in MT and WY.


Next time. If you make it to Hot Springs, you can prospect for diamonds and sapphires at Crater of Diamonds state park, and keep what you find.


Perrys ill conceived Trans-Texas Corridor has FUBARed most of that areas highways. However, I-35 between Austin and DFW has long been confusing due to the split into I-35E/W leading separately to Dallas and Ft. Worth, and its southern end being so FAR from both. Wikipedia claims I-35 Americas only divided interstate, a distinction it earns twice over since, coincidentally, 1000 miles north it runs through (and does the same thing in) the other great American twin city, Minneapolis-St. Paul. The two (or four) cities share nearly as many, and far less explicable, commonalities as TX and TN (e.g. the NHLs Dallas Stars began as the Minnesota North Stars.) Clarity in DFW is further obscured by no less than FOUR other interstates, and of course Hillsboro PD considers I-35 the towns primary revenue source.

Visiting Little D without visiting Big H, incidentally, is a crime against both God and man, not to mention oneself.


Again, it is hardly missed. For that matter, Panhandle winters occasionally do a fair impression, though usually spoiled by being too arid for even scrub grass.