I’m in Texas, too, but truth be told, and this is just my thought on the subject, I selected my families cemetery in Minnesota to be buried in.
I truly love Texas but I choose Minnesota not so much for the family connection but because I think in the not-so-distant future southern Texas (along with the entire American southwest) will become some sort of quasi-Mexican state, if not a part of Mexico.
Consequently, I’d rather not be buried in Mexico and my grave subject to vandalism from La Raza or other hate-whitey types. (BTW, my family being from Sweden, my name would never be confused with a Mexican name).
Just my thought on the subject.
Well I’m willing to nail together my own $50.00 box with wood from Lowes, and gather my own rocks for that unnamed, unadorned piece of ground you saw in NM, and I find a certain amount of appeal in that idea, so I will just have to think on it for awhile.
I sure don’t mind being buried in Texas and mostly prefer being buried in my natural home of Texas, I will always be a Texan, that is why I can entertain the possibility of being buried in New Mexico.
I lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin and never felt much there, Texas and New Mexico have soul, no matter the future, there is always a different and unknown future regardless of what dirt your bones are turning to dust in.