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Colorado Road Trip 11: The Road Home
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
We returned from Durango, Colo. on a different, faster route: Aztec, Albuquerque, Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, Austin.
No river tracing. No visiting with Austin ex-pats.
A. Very green mountains, valleys and mesas, mostly Indian reservations.
B. Sand-blasted desert canyons, also mostly reservations.
C. Cottonwood-and-development-choked Rio Grande valley. (At least Albuquerque attempts to build green, apt design.)
D. Sage-tinged high desert of eastern New Mexico, past the Sandia Range.
E. Flat, fertile high plains of the Panhandle.
F. Mesquite-ridden rolling plains through Abilene.
G. Oak-and-pecan-studded Hill Country south of Cisco.
If you’ve not driven the route between Lubbock and Abilene recently, you will be astonished by the proliferation of wind farms on that stretch. Until you see them in that quantity, it’s easy to dismiss the state’s investment in wind power.
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