Alamogordo, New Mexico

We drove from Lubbock to Alamogordo, New Mexico on Wednesday. The drive was spectacular. The road was mostly 4-lane, but sparsely traveled. Terrain was varied and interesting, with sagebrush plains punctuated by rolling hills and aspen-lined streams. We passed through several small towns along the way.

Our favorite of these small towns, a place where I do intend to stop someday, is Tatum, New Mexico. Their streets are each labeled, not with generic glowing green and white street signs, but with beautiful black silhouette metal art signs! Each is different, depicting western scenes, plants, animals.. just wonderful!

Here is a website for one of the metal art companies we saw driving through. Another is Poor Boys Metal Art, which doesn't have a website that I can find, but their work is beautiful too, of the same silhouette type.

We lunched at an Indian casino/restaurant where Michael enjoyed a huge club sandwich, and I had a Denver omelet!

A short time afterlunch, we arrived at Roadrunner RV Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Here I am resting with the pets after the day's drive:



Yesterday we took pictures! We went to White Sands National Monument and walked the dunes. We took a lunch, which we enjoyed with a really nice couple from Vermont.

Interesting plants:



Janee and Michael playing in the sand:



White Sands!


Bird tracks in the crispy soft gypsum sand:



This was our 2nd visit to White Sands. We really love this park!