[wardaddy]

Isn’t that true....everyone has driven those long panhandle stretches

As a long haired southern Boy with no AC in the early 70s we’d leave lat dusk from Jackson Mississippi and be eating breakfast somewhere between Dumas Dalhart or Texline or even Clayton NM

Many places has great Tex mex breakfasts ...a shamrock near Texline I remember or a cafe in Clayton by the Best Western

By that afternoon we were camping near Trinidad or Walsenberg and Blanca Peak

Man I loved this camping and climbing trips then to escape the heat of Dixie

In Texline it was still yes ma’am and sweet tea

Clayton ....it was a new world ....I had kin in Santa Fe

Arizona was oddly more southern. Than New Mexico back then

Yes I love dumas name....hell im tempted to head out......wish I could.....Amarillo by morning ...lol....it’s forty all the way from Nashville

I’m only 62 but of my compadres from then it’s only two of us left

[Wallace T.]

Southeastern New Mexico, especially around Hobbs, is an extension of the Permian Basin, both geographically and culturally. Northeastern New Mexico, not so much. Arizona had a lot of Southern settlers in the early days. The Tombstone troubles were between Northerners like the Earps and Southerners like the Clantons.

[crusty old prospector]

My favorite motel name in Dalhart is the Best Western called the “Nursanickle.” It took my a while to catch on to the pun. I thought it was German or something.

[TStro]

I grew up and lived in Amarillo 43 years. Married a lady from Dumas (she was nuts and we rounded up divorced, hence my leaving Amarillo), my best friend was from Dumas. Went to the XIT days every year. Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas!
We had no A/C for years, but we finally got a swamp cooler. Like our floor furnace, it only gave comfort when you were next to it LOL. Needless to say, we kids spent no time in the house. Still go skiing and pass through Dalhart and Texline. Rabbit Ear mountain near Dalhart, a volcano, doesn’t look like a volcano. It is part of a volcanic hot spot that stretches across northern NM west to east.