White Sands, NM: It's Hard to Hide
White Sands National Monument starts out looking like any other desert-based national park at its entrance, fraught with low lying shrub, hills, and mountains in the background. But as you drive further into the park, it changes scenery quickly.
The white of the sand covering every square inch of visibility created a white-out so bright that I was squinting behind my sunglasses.
With largely nothing else, aside from a few tall grasses and flowering shrub that managed to reach up out of the sand dunes, White Sands makes you feel like assimilating into its blank, nothingness. It's almost like a black hole that swallows everything, erasing all trace of your existence, and covering you up with the wind-blown ripples of the sand.
It's a cleansing effect on one's mind and body.
But maybe it's because White Sands has a way of exposing the truth. No matter how naked you become, you still remain conspicuous against the white-wash. If you have anything to hide, best not come to a place like White Sands.
White Sands National Monument
19955 U.S. 70
Alamogordo, NM
(575) 479-6124
http://www.nps.gov/whsa/index.htm
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| Park Entrance |
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| Halfway into the park, the road turns to packed sand |
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| Nothing but white |
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| It's hard not to be noticed in White Sands |
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| Our bikes |
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| Sash handles the sandy road pretty well |
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| Even Annie is getting into the fun |
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| Greetings from White Sands |
that asphalt Anne never fails to have great time, and what a tan she has
ReplyDeleteSuper amazing pictures of such a barren landscape. Thank you for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Peru we used to go to Huacachina and go sandboarding. It was really difficult. Was anybody sandboarding?
Not sandboarding, but there were kids with plastic pans. They bought them at the gift shop for $15.00 a pop.
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