By Richard E Walrath

People have trouble with New Mexico – they think it’s part of Mexico.  Honest. 

NPR aired a story about a man from Santa Fe making travel arrangements and was told he had to get a passport.  But I’m from NEW Mexico, he said. 

New Mexico, Old Mexico, said the agent..  It’s all the same. You’ll have to get a passport.

Today I heard that a listener had written saying he was from Albuquerque and had moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.  He thought he had solved the problem by telling people that he was from Albuquerque. 

Trouble was, he found out, people thought it was in Arizona.