REXLION - Mike - Used to make a run from Wichita Falls TX down thru LUBBOCK picking up US380 and crossing into NM to pick up I25 at San Antonio and go south to T or C (Elephant Butte) NM on work trips. Nothing but miles and miles of much of nothing but it has it surprises... I would get a couple of days dispersed TENT camping along the way and one of the strange encounters I found was BLACK RATTLE SNAKES. I guess they live off the dark lava rocks though-out that region just before crossing the RIO GRANDE River. I would head for some rock formations to spend the night on the NM153 road just off of US380 that eventually feeds the secured TRINITY site.
Certainly takes you back to nature there...
Roy Ken