Moving to New Mexico-The Land of Enchantment

“I don’t
think we can rent you a car tonight”, the guy behind the counter said.
“It’s snowing pretty good out there.” After 12 hours of airports, this
was not what I wanted to hear. I had reservations in another town 100
miles away. (Wait, did he say snow?! It doesn’t snow in the desert,
does it? Note to self: deal with that later.)

“Look”, I said,
“I can drive in the snow, I have driven plenty of times in the snow.”
“I don’t know”, he said, “It can get pretty icy on the overpasses.”
“So, if it gets too bad, I’ll just stay at some motel’, I told him.
This brought a look of consternation to the man’s face. He called over
the other guy behind the counter. They had a quiet discussion and
turned back to me. “There aren’t any motels between here and there”, he
said.

This was when I knew I had arrived in the Twilight Zone.
Coming from New Jersey, I could not imagine 100 miles of highway and no
place to stay! “What do you mean, no place between here and
there…surely there must be something”, I said. They looked at each
other nervously and looked back at me shaking their heads no. “No,
nothing, there was one place, but it’s closed now”, the one said, a
little hesitantly. I could see they were wondering who was this crazy
lady, with the little girl and the cat in a box going meow, meow, meow.
How long before she snapped…

“Look, just rent me the car!”
I snapped at them, fed up and tired, and wondering how these idiots
ever got a job. Surely there was some place to stay. I probably scared
them, but I got the car and set out.

Four hours and 100 miles
later, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into. The guys at the
airport had been right, there was nothing between there and here but
one McDonald’s. Never had I experienced so much dark, dark empty space.
Where were the street lights, where were the towns…and why was it
snowing!

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