Well, Hell

Here it is... hard upon Happy Hour... and we gots nuthin'.  Except a moderate thirst, which we shall quench in the by and by.  So, that said, and since I know most folks are not in the habit of going back and perusing comments to old posts, I'll just give ya this lil vignette ya may have missed otherwise:

That's because Santa Fe didn't have an airport until then. Well, it had one, but it was only used by a few hardy souls. It was the only state capital without commercial service.

6300 feet of elevation + hot summer days = takeoff runs of truly heroic length. Albuquerque was almost as bad; AF pilots of the piston age used to joke that if you weren't airborne by the time you reached Tucumcari, it was time to abort.

That would be Blog-Bud Extraordinaire Gordon, commenting on my "Hot" post.  For those of you unfamiliar with New Mexico geography... it's 175 long and empty road miles between ABQ and Tucumcari.  Made ME LOL, that did.

(Full disclosure: The pic (click to embiggen, as ever) is actually US84 south of Santa Rosa, which is west of Tucumcari.  Not that THAT matters; it's just I'm too pedantic for my own good.)