White Sands Motel

... affidavits pinned to the wall so we got on the road. The disappointment of Roswell inspired us to take a detour southwest to see the White Sands National Monument. It was probably, with the benefit of hindsight, a bit of a stretch too far trying to fit it ...

Biosphere 2 is awesome! Biosphere 2 was very cool.  As they say 'an engineering marvel'.  While the technology inside wasn't original, the size and scale of what they did is almost absurd.  Would have liked more about the history of the ...

... we thought it would be a great place to see the 4th July Celebrations.  We had managed to get a room booked into the Pilgrim Sands Motel which was really fortunate as it gets booked up a year in advance as it is a perfect place to see the evening ...

... twists and turns we arrived into Gisborne.  A postively booming metropolis compared to waiahua bay.  We stayed at The Whispering Sands Motel.  It was beach front and I had a lovely walk along the beach watching the myriad of surfers.  ...

... a hundred mile round trip no longer sounds like a ludicrous detour to see something of interest. So as we headed to Albuquerque from White Sands, we turned off the road to hunt down the VLA. As we caught our first glimpse of one of the telescopes in the ...

... 't they right! We saw three separate mini tornados and managed to catch one on video camera :-). So we stopped off at the White Sands Monument which is basically miles and miles of white sand dunes. This is south of the missile testing range where they ...

... and chilled after a Hopi ear candle treatment. Boy are we whizzing around the island, from Whangamata we headed for the Coromandel Coast - beautiful, white sands but no sun!  We dug a hole on Hot Water Beach, Well actually we dug a deep hole, in fact ...

... say the least.   Went on a Island hopping tour while in Langkawi, first stop was Beras Basah Island which had white sands and blues sea and sky. Then onto a cove where we witnessed sea eagles swooping down to feed from the water, ...

... ça donne un charme "spatial" à la ville! je retrouve ma chambre... demain il y a de la route à faire pour découvrir une des beautés, certainement la plus fameuse, du Nouveau Mexique: White Sands!!! si je ne me fais pas kidnapper pendant la ...

... after I realized they probably want to keep tabs on any non Americans wandering around the middle test range. When we got into the White Sands park we were able to jump on a ranger guided tour that had just started. Less than 5 minutes later we jumped ...

... just a large open area with dozens of old missiles from the V-2 to the Patriot Missile are displayed. I kept moving eastward to White Sands National Monument. Right beside the missile range is a nature preserve, go figure. The sand here is very white ...

... was alright.. Phew, that was close! The road trip could have ended right there if things had turned out differently. 10am: White sands, here we come! Located in southcentral New Mexico, west of Alamagordo, are the world's largest dune fields of gypsum ...

... each. The head-wind was vicious all day and seemed to get worse as we went west. Next stop was at one of my favorite places- White Sands Nat Mon just west of Alamogordo. I wasn’t sure they would let us in with the wind blowing so hard and we could ...

... missiles in it of all shapes and sizes. Pride of place, in a special building to protect it from the erosive forces of White Sands, is a V-2 missile, the kind that were used by the Nazis during WWII to bomb London and Antwerp and were later confiscated by ...

... not go in. Great place, loved it there. I traveled around the Southwest a while back and still remember vividly a night I spent at White Sands, NM. There was a full moon on the "white sand" gypsum and it was beautiful and spooky. I was on acid at ...

... 40 that runs almost to our driveway. Never did we think we'd be so happy to see any one road . . . We drove past White Sands, NM, and caught a glimpse of the National Monument around some road construction. We talked about stopping, but Ed wanted to ...

... have been mud slides and a washout so just how far we can go remains to be seen. Beautiful beaches with rolling surf and white sands and surprisingly uncrowded. It is spring break so there are families on the beach but as the white sands run for miles at ...

Ok, so on departing White Sands (I was driving), I literally had the best drive of my life.  Took the car up to 130MPH on an empty road!  I love our Toyota, driving in the USA is great.  Also, the roads to Roswell were fab, lots of wide ...