White Sands

We spent the night in Maranda, AZ, and on Saturday we continued east on I10 to Las Cruces, New Mexico. We then turned onto highway 70, and drove to White Sands National Monument. The dunes there are impressive, but I was hoping there'd be more information about the adjacent testing ranges. Since we got there fairly late in the day, we had to rush through the Jr Ranger program in order to get out onto the dune field before it closed.

We didn't have enough time to see the movie, or hike among the dunes before it started getting dark. I'd recommend allowing two to three hours to really see this park. We then drove into Alamogordo and camped at an RV park.

Driving through the southwest has its advantages and disadvantages. The roads are fairly flat and straight, so you can cover a lot a ground fast. The drawback is that the roads are fairly flat and straight because there's not a lot out there, and what is there is pretty spread out, and there's not much to look at in between.