Tuesday, March 23rd:
We began our day picking up a few essential items from the Walmart, like a toothbrush, since Ryan had dropped his in the public shower at the RV park. But I must say, Las Cruces has one of the nicest, cleanest Walmarts I have ever seen…we thought we were in a Target until you notice the navy blue smocks. It was weird because the groceries were on the left and the Mcdonalds was in the back. HUH!
We headed out of Las Cruces for the day to travel to White Sands, New Mexico. If you have never heard of White Sands, it is simply a natural wonder. An 8 mile stretch of sand dunes of white crystal-like sand, that feels and looks more like pure sugar. We couldn’t believe it….We were driving through what seemed like a scene from the movie “Land of the Lost” or “Planet of the Apes”. I felt like I was on a different planet. We drove through while the crystal sand blew over us, a snow plow (sand plow) trailed on behind us, sweeping the roads clear. Driving through it seemed as if we were in a snow storm. We parked the Yella, took off our shoes and headed out in the white sand dunes to roll down the hills and make sand angels. We sat against one of the dunes and just looked out admiring the miles and miles of white crystal mountains. This by far, was definitely an experience for the story books. And definitely a place you must see before you die. (Pictures don’t do justice!)Also a lot of scenes of Transformers was shot out here we later found out from a border patrol officer.
Speaking of border patrol, as we were traveling out of New Mexico we were unaware of this but there are these checkpoints where the whole highways traffic is routed through what looks like a rest stop where border patrols are checking each car and truck for something probably either drugs or illegal immigrants since we were just on the other side of the México border. So on this day we were the lucky ones. Apparently two young people in an RV waved some red flags and the border patrols asked us to search our RV with a K9. Even though we had nothing to hide this bugged us because its kind of an insult or something at least very awkward. We got out of our RV and the Patrols were very cautious and we had to keep our hands out of our pockets and were drilled with questions like, where are you coming from and where are you headed? Well, apparently we are coming from Florida and we don’t really have a destination, is not a good answer for the border patrol. So after a while of searching and awkwardness, we were freed to go on our way. Luckily they didn’t find the bag of white powder in the kitchen drawer that we had just smuggled from the dunes at White Sands, NM. Lol!!!!
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