Vagabond Tales- White Snow- White Sand- White Knuckles

So we were trying to avoid cold weather…thus, this trip. Little did we know when we left our campsite this morning that we would be driving through a blizzard at 8,600 feet of elevation on tiny, twisty, roads. You gotta love our GPS girl! She has a real sense of humor. We knew we would be driving through rain but didn’t realize we were changing elevation so quickly.

Thanks to Harry’s sister Faith’s suggestion…we stopped at White Sands National Monument. We didn’t have that on our list but we are so thankful for her suggestion because…It became a national park December 20, 2019. That has been our quest to visit all of the national parks in the continental U.S. and we would have missed it ! A fantastic place! You will have to imagine the bright blue skies in our other pictures of the desert since it was raining but the rain gave the skies some moodiness the blue cloudless sky wouldn’t. I think it was stunning!

These dazzling white sand dunes are tucked- away in the Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico. They cover 275 square miles over the Chihuahuan Desert- the largest gypsum dunefield in the world.