Today we decided do a bit of touring. First thing we went to Cloudcroft. There was no special reason other than it was up in the mountains and we thought it might be a pretty trip. And that it was. The road is fairly slow as it rises over 4,000 feet in 16 miles so it is fairly windy.
Then we came back to the motorhome and packed a lunch to go out to tour White Sands National Monument. It is quite a site. The dunes are made of very fine particles of gypsum so when walking on them, it is almost like walking on packed powder. As we drove through the dunes, it was really hard to not have the feeling of driving in snow (other than the temperatures of course). Many young folks were out on either magic carpets or flying saucers and sliding down the slopes. They had a great picnic area where we had our lunch. We took a couple of hikes - not too long as the trails are really hard to walk on as it's like walking in really soft sand. It was much easier when we could get off the beaten path as the surface was really quite hard - much like hard drifted snow. Even though we were next to a very large Air Base and Missile Range, we never saw any planes flying around - had expected to see a few of them.
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