Christmas in Las Cruces, New Mexico

There’s a huge swath of the United States that I’ve never visited before, starting with the farms of Iowa, trailing down the western boundary of the Mississippi river and cutting across the dry sands of New Mexico and Arizona to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Jerry, on the other hand, only knows this side of the U.S. and for Christmas this year, he gave me a little snapshot of his childhood growing up in the Chihuahuan desert.