I grew up on the TX NM line and really miss it. I spent half my youth down here and half of it running around the North East quarter of NM with relatives in Ruidoso and Las Vegas and friends that were as close as family in SE Colorado.
Can't say how much I miss it. MarioQ and I went up there Elk hunting a couple of years ago and it really reminded me of just how much I truly do miss not just the country but the people.
Beautiful but hard, hard country to make a living in but some of the very best people on earth.
Funny but my two favorite places/people to be and be with are NE NM, SE Colorado and S. Africa. The people are the same, the country is the same, but Afrikaans is a whole lot tougher than Spanish!