Actually, eyeballing the map of New Mexico (which is only 342 miles wide), and where El Paso is (basically drawing a line straight north from El Paso neatly bisects New Mexico), I think walking from Beaumont in the east, along Interstate 10 to El Paso, and then through New Mexico to the border of Arizona is equivalent to walking from the Shire to Lothlorien.
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Possibly of interest as far as Middle Earth vs. Europe goes ...
(From Strange Maps)