Billy the Kid Scenic Byway

After driving through flat, unattractive desert landscape, riddled with oil rigs and oil industry infrastructure for hours in Texas and New Mexico to get to Carlsbad and Roswell, getting back to the mountains was a treat. I follow in the footsteps of Billy the Kid and visit Lincoln (where he escaped from the courthouse and was later hanged) and Fort Stanton - found it in 1855 to fight the Apache, it served as a hospital and an internment camp for German and Japanese nationals in WWII. Lincoln is a very nice, very authentic Old West Town, I really loved it.Read more