Amtrak across New Mexico is better than the last time I crossed it. We were going cross country in a work van with a bad alternator and only an am radio. All you get on am from Gallup to Albuquerque is indian chanting. We nearly went psychotic.

Bleaker still is that run from Gallup to Shiprock. Nice place to go if you need to "get away from it all".
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)