White Sands, New Mexico

Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico.

Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and created the world's largest gypsum dune field.  To me, it looked and felt like walking on snowbanks in Minnesota!

We were there on Thanksgiving day, 2010.  Mike and Elizabeth and I drive down from Socorro - 3 hours - and had a really fun day. 

Had some fun with the shadows.  This is me, Mike and Elizabeth goofing around.

I love this picture of Mike.  This is what we looked like all day, walking across the vastness of this amazing white sand, taking pictures.  What a fun day. 

Trudging up the snowbanks - oh, I mean the sand dunes.

I joked with friends before I left that my Thanksgiving dinner would probably be a hot dog out of a gas station, but we did find a Golden Corral that was open and we sat down - sandy, happy and having a great day.