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Stretching over 1000 miles north to south, highway Interstate 25 serves as the main route

through Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. The New Mexico portion of Interstate 25 runs

through Arida Desert Landscape, from looming mountain ranges to sand swept, cracked plains

of wild grass and dried brush. This desolate landscape doesn't often march in terms of excitement

and drives can be long and unaventful. Yet, every so often, a bustling city-scape emerges

on the expensive horizon, with the highway providing a gateway to cities like Albuquerque

and Santa Fe. How at southernmost point, the highway begins in the New Mexico City of

Los Cruces. After just over an hour's drive northward, the road curls around to the western

edge of truth or consequences. A desert city bordering the Rio Grande River. Truth or

consequences earned its unique name after winning a competition with a popular radio quiz show

in 1950. The two risen brochures for truth or consequences

touts the one road desert town as being only 120 miles north of El Paso and 150 miles south

of Albuquerque. In other words, it is quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Home to a year

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