There’s a section of Route 60 between Mountainair NM and I 25 that is 20 miles of completely straight and flat. No houses, no nothing. I knew a guy who used it to found out if his super bike could actually hit 200 mph.
Well, did he hit 200 mph?
Speaking of that part of the state, I once read a blog by some (apparently clueless) bicycle tourers. They wanted to go somewhere for a winter ride where it’s warm. “Hey, New Mexico is the desert, let’s go there!”
They wound up in and around Magdalena and were wondering why they were freezing their @$$es off in December or January.