We stopped for a couple of days in Las Cruces, New Mexico
and went to the White Sands Monument.
I’ve driven by this several times but always figured it was a statue to
some local Native Chief or something.
Nope! This monument is actually
hundreds of miles of pure white gypsum “sand” that looks and feels like
flour. It is stunningly beautiful and
absolutely amazing. The kids were
sledding down the slopes as if they were on snow. Naturally, I threw myself down and had to
make a “snow angel”. The sand is amazing
– it doesn’t stick to anything, not even hair (good thing too). Just a couple of inches below the surface,
the sand is ice cold. What is even more
amazing is that the temperature jumps about 12 degrees the minute you leave the
park! All that white stuff just sucks
the heat out of the air.
I’m definitely going back there again!
From Las Cruces, we made 2 overnight pit stops in Van Horn,
Texas and then Ozona, Texas. Not much ot
report from either place.
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