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North America » United States » New Mexico » White Sands February 4th 2018

White Sands is truly one of the worlds greatest and rarest of natural wonders. The park's 275 square miles of dazzling white gypsum dunes can be seen from miles up into the Sacramento Mountains and the Jefferson National Forest. As we drove down the valley leaving the snow-covered town of Cloudcroft at 6200 feet, in the distance it looked as if another great snow had fallen on the Chihuahuan Desert some 20+ miles away. Unlike many of the parks we've visited, White Sands is dog friendly and the dunes are open for exploration and fun. There are very few restrictions on where you can wander and if you do get disoriented, you can always follow your foot prints back. It was a warm and sunny (78 degree) day when Mi Hyon, Maggie and I wandered into ... read more
Park Entrance
Standing on top of the Dunes
Road Down from Forest

North America » United States » New Mexico » White Sands April 19th 2017

White Sands est un désert de dunes blanches (le plus étendu au monde, environ 50 Km de long sur 15 Km de large). On y vu des traces d'animaux sur le sable comme: souris, scarabées, lézards....j'étais rassurée de m'en sortir vivante! Ce qui est le fun c'est qu'on peut marcher partout dans les dunes, comme le vent les déplace de 15 à 20 pieds par année nos traces disparaîtront au prochain coup de vent. Tout un décor! vous verrez. A+... read more
White Sands
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North America » United States » New Mexico » White Sands September 19th 2013

19 September 2013 – Thursday - This morning I checked out the town of Cloudcroft. It was a neat little town with the usual tourist stores and restaurants. Hwy 82 goes through the town and has some restaurants, lodging etc, and also Burro Avenue a block over has some more of the tourist area usual stuff. I explored it a bit and ate at a café called “Dave’s”. The food was very disappointing. I guess if all you get is tourist and you serve them each once that is plenty enough to stay in business. Their ice cream must have been good as it was served from a small window to the porch eating area and half the New Mexico State Police in full SWAT gear were out there eating ice cream cones. Cloudcroft was under ... read more
Storm coming in
clouds and sunset
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