Today, we made it from San Antonio to White Sands, New Mexico, to see the White Sands National Park. Prior to that, we had passed through El Paso, Texas, which is located directly along the Texas-Mexican border.
After entering the giant Texas valleys that lead eventually to the valley that is White Sands, the signal on the alternate device I use for mobile blog posts, an AT&T BlackBerry 8100 Pearl, had been lost. EDGE connection was gone and internet and MMS capabilities were disabled. I would have posted via the BlackBerry that we had reached White Sands but that was obviously delayed because signal never returned until hours after we had already left.
We are now in Las Cruces, one of the bigger cities in this part of New Mexico, way down I10 from White Sands. Earlier, we had stopped at two Honda dealerships, but neither of them had the part necessary in repairing the Odyssey properly - the O2 sensor.
As for White Sands National Park, it was a great place to stop. As the name states, the sand dunes were like any other dunes, only the sand was (obviously) white. We had a guided tour of the dunes and their history with one of the park's officers, but due to increasingly-fast winds and lightning in the distance, a sign of an intense storm coming, the tour ended earlier than expected.
Other than that, it was a great photo opportunity. Dad and I snapped away while the rest of the family stood by the park officer listening attentively.
Tommorrow, our destination will be Los Angeles, California. We got some advice from a waiter at a Pizza Hut we ate at earlier and were told it's going to be about 11 hours of driving, but that's nothing new (or hard, for that matter) to us. The only thing mom, dad, and Joy should be worried about is the intense ticketing going on in some of the parts of Arizona we will be passing through haha.
---Click here for a few pictures from White Sands, New Mexico
---Click here for the full 2008 "Around America" Road Trip album
-Mark
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