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| Sunset at White Sands National Monument |
Really
enjoyed our overnight stay at Rockhound
State Park, such a great
view from our camp this morning as the light came up. I still love seeing
cactus growing in the wild, think I am becoming quite a fan of the desert!
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| Morning view at Rockhound |
Went online
this morning and booked our connecting flights from Tucson
to Los Angeles now
that we know where we are leaving from!!! Our LA – NZ flight had been booked
back in April. Good to have that dealt to.
Continued
east this morning to Las Cruces.
As we have no idea what size towns are, we always check to see what the
population is, saw that Las Cruces
was 50,000. Needed to do some shopping for the “grandies” back home, so decided
today was the day. Found our way around the town and the shops and ended up
with quite a few exciting things to pack up in our bags.
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| The Organ Mountains |
It was
later in the afternoon before we got away and continued east, not quite sure
where we would end up for the night. The pass took us North of the Organ
Mountains, a very spectacular range, before descending into the Tularosa Basin,
quite a sight as it stretched for miles east to the Sacremento Mountains and
home to the White Sand Missile Range. They had a museum there but it was too
late in the afternoon to visit, so continued on to the White Sands
National Monument. Thanks
to Weiland from our camera club who mentioned that it was well worth a visit.
The sun was
getting really low in the sky as we drove into the park, the dunes are
brilliant white gypsum sand with a road meandering through. At the first place
we could park I ran with the camera up into the dunes to try and catch the last
of the sun…..felt like a “chook with its head cut off” as I didn’t really know
where to go or what I would find! Surprised that the dunes were quite solid and
much easier to walk on than I expected. It was fabulous and tried to make the
most of the short time I had.
It was
getting dark as we arrived into Alamogordo,
found this RV park, the first we came too which is very clean and tidy and an
ideal overnight stop.
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| No its not snow!!!! |
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| The neighbours are getting into the Xmas spirit! |
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