Texas is one big mother of a state. It kept going on and on, driving on Rt. 10 we narrowly escaped some big storm that was suppose to cause all this flooding in the Dallas area. The sky opened up so hard, I literally couldn’t see anything past 10 feet in front of me. However we must have been on the very edge of the storm system because all of a sudden it stopped. We made a quick stop in El Paso, TX to get some camping food and begin our drive to Alamogordo and White Sands New Mexico. By the time we got into that area (around 9) it was already almost totally dark and still 95 degrees outside. We drove past and watched the Alamogordo fireworks and got to our Campsite at Oliver Lee State Park around 1030.
The park was so damn windy, and our tent was not made to stand up to those conditions. It was clearly a camping tent, not a hiking tent. We abandoned our attempts and just resigned to sleeping in the car, but not before taking a few photos of the moon quickly creeping up over the mountain.
In the morning we went to White Sands National Park, but not before getting harassed but a border check point guard. He said our pupils were pin point and asked us why. I said that we had woken up 15 minutes before and also just took off our sun glasses to speak to him. Being an EMT he obviously knew that your eyes don’t dilate when introduced to brighter conditions. America, land of the free, well at least your free when you prove yourself innocent.
White Sands was like walking onto the moon. Everything is white for as far as the eyes can see, except for the looming mountains in the distance. While walking on the dunes I made sure to stagger my steps as any unnatural rthym would surely attract a sand worm (who gets the the reference?). Rather than attempt to summarize with words what I saw, please check out my pictures once I post them.
To California.
Jimbo
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