no fresh water

 

Leaving Texas headed west on US 62, the monotony of the scenery might cause you to zone out-- until you come to Arkansas Junction.  Then you're thinking "did I take a wrong turn" on the way to Carlsbad, New Mexico?  My traveling companion Sally and I spent some of the 70 miles between Hobbs and Carlsbad looking for the Halfway Bar but never found it (typical in our quest for "old" landmarks). Supposedly Arkansas Junction, at US 62 and NM 203, was established in the late 1940s as workers traveled from Lovington to build the natural gas processing plants.  Once upon a time, there was a café, now gone the way of the Halfway Bar.  Just the Arkansas Junction sign remains on the road between Texas and New Mexico.

 

US 62-180, New Mexico

6.8.2016