Day # 9, and we are spending the night in Lordsburg, New Mexico…a dusty speck of a town in the high desert. Last night were in Van Horn, Texas, which was even dustier. Being in the high desert, the sun beats nice and warm during the day, but it gets cold at night.
We drove on I-10 for most of the last two days. The highway at time seems endless. Not far from Junction, Texas we passed a huge wind farm. We remember these giant windmills from first time we passed this way in 2004, and again last year — but it seemed that many more had been added since last March.
At one point there were windmills as far as the eye could see.This morning we made a short detour on route 20, which is just south of I-10. Probably the original road to El Paso, it runs very close to the Mexican border and the Rio Grande. The entire area appears to be extremely poor. We passed ranches and farms, lots of irrigation ditches and a number of orchards; pecan, I think!.
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