A round trip to Cumbres makes sense for selling a ride to folks coming from Albuquerque, Santa Fe or even Taos -- either residents or vacationers.
This could be a nice one-day trip for them.
Also makes me think of a comment made to me a few years ago by the Museum Director of a depot museum near Santa Barbara, California. He said that quite a number of the visitors to the museum were Europeans on a week or longer vacation in Santa Barbara. Reason was that after visiting the more normal tourist spots around Santa Barbara they still had days left and so they found out about the depot museum and visited.
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