Stepping off the plane out into the Tarmac when one is only familiar with destinations in the Caribbean was a pleasant surprise! Wall to wall sunshine and blue sky with an air temperature of about 84deg but the humidity was so low that with the breeze made it feel as though it was only in the mid to upper 70's.
Customs and immigration was relatively painless. They have an automated lottery system for who gets "additional screening", so getting through was not much longer than 10 minutes if you were not chosen from the time you picked up your bag for the carousel to the time you made it out to the taxi stand.
Our group of 10 turned into an even dozen by the time we boarded the bus to take us to our home for the next 5-1/2 days, approximately 20 miles south of the airport through terrain and geography that was very similar to northern New Mexico along the Rio Grande Gorge west of Taos and southern Colorado around Great Sand Dunes NP, adding the sea of Cortez to the East and the Pacific to the West... We are near the smaller peaks of a mountain chain (Sierra's?) as it heads down to the sea to dip its toes in the cool deep.
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