"Do you need a passport to travel to New Mexico" - sadly many thought so.

If you don't already know, there is a monthly magazine called, surprise-surprise, New Mexico Magazine.
The last page of the magazine is "One Of Our 50 Is Missing", which tells stories about people who
experience misinformation about New Mexico.

Here is an example of one of the latest stories

MONEY FOR NOTHING
Marko Weeks said her New Zealand son-in-law had a stopover at LAX on his way to visit her and decided to exchange his Kiwi cash for U.S. dollars. He told the clerk he was traveling to Albuquerque, New Mexico, stuffed the money he was given in his carry-on bag, and completely forgot about it. It wasn’t until he was back home and finally unpacking that he found it. “Now he is trying to figure out what to do with 2,600 Mexican pesos in New Zealand,” Weeks said.

Here is the link. Read some of the stories. Pretty funny & sad at the same time.

1,120 miles longer.
What's the cost of that?

Using my overly large collection of big beautiful Legos(r).

Or maybe they'd be more of a deterrent, If I just scattered them along the Colorado border?

I plan on submitting a request for Federal funding to buy even more Legos(r) later this afternoon or hopefully some dumbass right-winger will start a gofundme to finance the construction.