From the cool depths of Carlsbad Caverns we  headed north towards Albequerque, going through a wonderfully scenic town, Artesia, full of street sculptures.
We stopped at White Sands National Momument, snow white gypsum sand dunes that move about 30 feet a year.  Wild, beautiful and hot.  104 degrees and no shade. the umbrella was for shade, not to protect [...]

Well, now we are in New Mexico and spent a wonderful full day at Carlsbad Caverns where the temperature on the outside was 100 degrees and on the inside was 56 degrees.  We went down and down and down, over 800 feet in the biggest, deepest cave we have ever been in.  It went on and [...]