Chapter 8 – ON THE ROAD, AGAIN
AS THE NIGHT GATHERED, my rental truck continued on.
Spanish influence was all about me now. While I had traveled this way by Amtrak once, I never got a full appreciation of how the Spanish had left an economic impact on the land, which even now was present throughout our modern society. And their heritage was built on the natives, who in turn had built on the work of the Old Ones - who probably knew other peoples before them... It was reflected in the names of the towns along the highway: Santa Rosa, Cuervo, Montoya, Tucumcari, San Jon and finally, Clenrio.
New Mexico gave way to the plains of Northern Texas without incident, other than the light fading slowly through the sky. Heading straight east, I was unable to see the fabled Southwest sunset. The clo
