Well, we got up early today and grabbed the dogs and headed out. We planned on driving to White Sands National Monument near Ruidoso today and the round trip was 300 miles. Maybe a tad too many for one day of sight-seeing I guess. But we had a great time and the dogs really enjoy getting to go places with us.
We drove to Roswell and headed southwest to Alomogordo, to check out the White Sand dunes. On the way, we went through beautiful mountains all the way up to Cloudcraft, which was at some 9,000 ft altitude. Well, unfortunately I discovered I must have a tendancy for altitude sickness, because I started getting a migraine that increased the higher we went and lasted until we were back down on the other side of the mountains today...bummer! So we didn't get to spend anytime in the old cowboy/western town of Cloudcraft as planned. But, we did go thru Lincoln National Forrest on the way to Almogordo, and the scenery along the entire trip today was beautiful. Ruidoso had lot's of great scenery too.
I've included a few pictures of the White Sands National Monument, which was one of the strangest things we've seen...it appeared to be snow with 20+ foot snow-drifts, but obviously was just white 'sand' from gypsum. Mark even climbed up into one of the dunes with Clyde & Duffy...Duffy enjoyed it, but Clyde sure didn't! He slid down the dune with all 4 feet extended, he definitely wasn't enjoying the dunes as much as we were! But today, we did get to see Roswell (again), Almogordo, Cloudscraft and Ruidoso today, and overall, we really enjoyed today's outing.
We're not sure what's on the agenda tomorrow...this Friday is 'chore' day, when we get the laundry done, truck cleaned and fueled and everything ready for our Saturday morning early departure to Santa Fe. We'll probably go to the Living Desert Zoo and possibly Sitting Bull Falls tomorrow. But not sure...so stay tuned~
We drove to Roswell and headed southwest to Alomogordo, to check out the White Sand dunes. On the way, we went through beautiful mountains all the way up to Cloudcraft, which was at some 9,000 ft altitude. Well, unfortunately I discovered I must have a tendancy for altitude sickness, because I started getting a migraine that increased the higher we went and lasted until we were back down on the other side of the mountains today...bummer! So we didn't get to spend anytime in the old cowboy/western town of Cloudcraft as planned. But, we did go thru Lincoln National Forrest on the way to Almogordo, and the scenery along the entire trip today was beautiful. Ruidoso had lot's of great scenery too.
I've included a few pictures of the White Sands National Monument, which was one of the strangest things we've seen...it appeared to be snow with 20+ foot snow-drifts, but obviously was just white 'sand' from gypsum. Mark even climbed up into one of the dunes with Clyde & Duffy...Duffy enjoyed it, but Clyde sure didn't! He slid down the dune with all 4 feet extended, he definitely wasn't enjoying the dunes as much as we were! But today, we did get to see Roswell (again), Almogordo, Cloudscraft and Ruidoso today, and overall, we really enjoyed today's outing.
We're not sure what's on the agenda tomorrow...this Friday is 'chore' day, when we get the laundry done, truck cleaned and fueled and everything ready for our Saturday morning early departure to Santa Fe. We'll probably go to the Living Desert Zoo and possibly Sitting Bull Falls tomorrow. But not sure...so stay tuned~
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