After seeing snow capped mountains in Lincoln National Forest east of Alamogordo, NM I decided to take the most southern, warm, and probably the most boring route through NM via route 9. Route 9 parallels the US-Mexico border and is used mainly by the Border Patrol. There really isn't any other reason to be there as far as I could tell. There are a couple small old railroad towns, Columbus and Animas, but not much else except a couple hundred miles of dust and the desert.
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| The lonely, windy, dusty Route 9 through NM, just a couple miles north of Mexico. For about 200 miles the most exciting thing is crossing the Continental Divide. |
