Land of the Lost

There's nothing new about New Mexico. This area has been occupied for a very long time. Humans have been here for at least 12,000 years. Some of those hunter gatherers obviously stuck around and developed the cultures that we label generally as the Ancient Puebloans (aka Anasazi), Hohokam and Mogollon. There are many abandoned communities, many in the middle of nowhere, where the view makes it easy to step back in time and imagine other people's perspective. From the archaic people wandering a radically different terrain to the prospectors and outlaws who rode horses across dirt roads that make the ones today look fancy.

There was heavy traffic during the Age of the Dinosaurs as well. You know the images that you saw in school of grade school of T-Rex running in terror from volcanoes, asteroids, mud pits, etc, with all of the dinosaurs trying to migrate? That happened here. Considering the Roswell incident, rumors of alien military bases in Dulce and the abundance of protected air space, we may even have a Sleestak, which combined with our often overlooked status in the US, makes New Mexico a combination of Land of the Lost and the X-Files.