Fun write up! I grew up doing tons of road trips. The best ones get you off the interstates, on to two-lane highways. People aren’t in a hurry, and you can learn a lot from the locals, especially food and things to see. If you’re ever in Las Cruces again, you have to go to Andeles in Mesilla, an old and scenic town just south of LC. Great New Mexican food. Nearby Hatch is also worth your time for food and buying chiles. The orchards there indeed are pecans.
While gasoline is cheaper outside California is indeed cheaper, it’s also not as clean, and it takes more refining (mostly removing sulfur), which allows catalytic converters (if you still have them! ;-) ), which, combined with a higher tax, makes it more expensive.
I love the Southwest, and I grew up in New Mexico.
Thanks, Drew! Will have to remember to pick your brain if we head that way again. and hopefully on the next one will be able to get off the interstate more.
Fun write up! I grew up doing tons of road trips. The best ones get you off the interstates, on to two-lane highways. People aren’t in a hurry, and you can learn a lot from the locals, especially food and things to see. If you’re ever in Las Cruces again, you have to go to Andeles in Mesilla, an old and scenic town just south of LC. Great New Mexican food. Nearby Hatch is also worth your time for food and buying chiles. The orchards there indeed are pecans.
While gasoline is cheaper outside California is indeed cheaper, it’s also not as clean, and it takes more refining (mostly removing sulfur), which allows catalytic converters (if you still have them! ;-) ), which, combined with a higher tax, makes it more expensive.
I love the Southwest, and I grew up in New Mexico.
Thanks, Drew! Will have to remember to pick your brain if we head that way again. and hopefully on the next one will be able to get off the interstate more.