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Cyndi_H
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Sep 17, 2013

Getting to Alamogordo from the east with no mountains

In May we'll be going to Alamogordo, New Mexico from Lubbock, Texas, and do NOT want to take the highways that go through Cloudcroft or Ruidoso. Has anyone taken the 24 (Pinyon Dunkin Road) and the 5...
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Heisenberg
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Sep 17, 2013
paulj wrote:
Why don't you want to go through Ruidoso. I haven't driven it, but my impression from other discussions is that this is an easy highway, 4 lane most of time.


It is very easy, but they said NOT. However getting to 24 to get to 506 may be just as hard as going through Ruidoso. And an hour or more on the road.

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