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Farmington, NM to El Paso, TX
10/7/2023

   First stop - part A - La Ventana Natural Arch & El Malpais National Monument   

• First stop - La Ventana Natural Arch and El Malpais National Monument (two for the price of one).

• Natural arch on the east side of highway 117 south of I-40.

• El Malpais - literally "the badlands", a huge lava flow on the west.

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VLA

   Second stop - VLA   

 The VLA, or Very Large Array, is a large group of 27 radio antennas, each at 82ft in diameter, 

on US-60, about 50 miles west of Socorro, NM.   

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Elephant Butte Dam

   Third stop - Elephant Butte Dam   

This dam, near Truth or Consequences, NM, isn't very wide, but it is over 300ft tall.

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