Into The Land Of Enchantment

 Glenrio is a town that is in two time zones, since it straddles the Texas/New Mexico border.The two houses in town that are still occupied are in different time zones. This is the only town that I know of that lies in two time zones.
  Four miles southwest of the remains of Glenrio is another ghost town. This one is called Endee. It was named after the ND Ranch. I have not visted Endee, but I plan to on a trip in the very near future. It is on the earlier alignment of Route 66, at the junction with State Highway 93, three miles south of Interstate 40.
  Twelve miles from the Texas border lie the remains of Bard. Actually, there were 2 towns called Bard. It started on the earlier alignment of Route 66 and then moved to the later routing. Today, both Bard and
Old Bard just have a few residents, a half dozen or so. In the newer town of Bard, there seems to be a third alignment of The Mother Road. It is barely discernible, but there was a road there at one time. This alignment is farther north than the other two. I believe it predates what I have been calling the older, or earlier, alignment of Route 66. It was most likely the 1926 alignment of the highway, which is the year the highway was commissioned, or it could be U.S. Highway 66's predecessor, the National Old Trails Highway. If this is the case, this alignment was never paved. Yet, what's left of this early road definitely shows signs that it was graded and maintained at one time.
  Before the present federal highway system got its start in 1926, the nation was a patchwork quilt of dirt roads that usually turned into quagmires after a rain. What roads there were usually connected towns in close proximity to each other and, after leaving populated areas, usually dwindled to a crude set of ruts or many times, disappeared completely, resulting in cross-country travel over desert or grassland for early drivers. The National Old Trails Highway and the Lincoln Highway were the first attempts to create a transcontinental road system.
Five miles west of Bard is San Jon, a town of about 300 people. It had about 800 at one time.