In Dallas/Fort Worth, you can drive from one side of the metro area and 60 miles later, still be in the metro area.
In El Paso, you drive some sixty or seventy miles, and you get this:
From Max's recent trip to your fair 'burg.
Pine trees and cooler climes just on the other side of the Organ Mountain in Las Cruces.
If I want pine trees, I have to drive to East Texas, and which during this part of the year probably feels a lot more like the Amazon than a mountain forest.