Reeves County, TX

Locator: 44662TX. 

Wow, this one map .... can take one down so many rabbit holes.

It would be impossible to re-trace my history from this map to Ken Kesey but last night during the witching hour it was quite an adventure.

Other rabbit holes and links:

• Reeves: a confederate colonel
  
• playa
• pecos
• toyah
• Toyah Lake
• Salt Draw
• Pecos River
  
• Saragosa
• Antonio de Espejo
• La Junta, Colorado
• Santa Fe Trail
  
• the La Escalera Ranch
  
• Paul Krassner
• the Yippies
• Jews: American Popular Culture.

• to get to Ken Kesey, it was via La Junta, Colorado, I believe, but I forget.

On numerous cross-country trips from DFW to Flathead, MT, I had the opportunity to pass through La Junta many times, but I don't recall visiting La Junta, so most likely after heading north out of Amarillo to Pueblo, I turned northwest at Dumas, TX, to take a shorter route to I-25 via Raton, New Mexico, just south of the Colorado state line. 

Next time I drive to Flathead Lake, I will make a special note to pass through La Junta, Spanish for junction, where the Santa Fe trail intersected with a road to Pueblo.

Santa Fe Trail, the north/mountain route, today (?), sixteen hours driving time:

• north-northeast out of Santa Fe on I-25
• northeast at Trinidad, Colorado, exiting onto US Highway 350
• a number of short stretches of various highways angling northwest from La Junta to Eads, Colorado
  
• a very short direct northerly route at Eads, Colorado (US Highway 287)
  
• connect with I-40 at Kit Carson and then all the way on I-40 to points east, including Kansas City, via Topeka