Mortal Highway Featured in Pasatiempo
“On the side of the highway, somewhere in Northern New Mexico, a simple white cross, affixed to a weathered wood post, marks the site of the crash where someone lost his life. The commemorative descanso, (a memorial erected at a crash site in honor of the person who died there) is for a young man who, after heading out one day to cut firewood in the mountains, never got home again.”