What does Alamogordo mean? It's Alamo - poplar (tree) and gordo - big. So, Big poplar. We see lots of poplars here in town and so it makes sense. We have been sitting waiting here at Boot Hill RV Park for mail to come to us and got that accomplished. Waited 3 days but thankfully everything is accomplished. Able to go to White Sands National Monument, been there before but still was stunning to see.
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| Tricia and her baby Dixie |
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| Off for an evening stroll |
In the mean time we have been watching Dixie, a four year old horse, in the corral near us, and Dixie's 'mom', Tricia, take care of her, mucking out the stable, feeding Dixie and a treat - watching her saddle up Dixie and ride off with her. Found out that Tricia who is a 19 year old young lady is a championship bronco-rider and she is breaking Dixie to do competitions with her. The stable that Dixie would have been in is under construction way back behind the RV park and there is no water yet, so Dixie is kept here which is near the owner of the campground live (at the back of the park). I love watching the horse because as a teenager I rode horses almost every day. Lots of work to keep one, just can't feed it and walk away. Needs lots of exercise, grooming, feed, cleaning out the stable.
We visited White Sands 7 years ago, did a quick hike which was beautiful if not blinding to the eyes. The sand is really gypsum, feels like talcum powder it is so fine. Very few people there, did see a sandplow out working. The dunes shift constantly and we marveled at how tall some of them are. We can look out our front window of the RV and see the white sands/dunes from here. It's roughly 275 square miles BIG! The largest in the world.
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| White Sands in the distance |
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| Pavement ended, driving on the gypsum |
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| Some dunes are pretty tall |
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| Ranger headed with horses to Lake Lucern |
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| Sandplowing is done every day |
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| Sledding |
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| You must keep the trail markers visible or you will get disorientated |
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| Dave standing on top of a dune, to get perspective on size |
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