White Sands elicits a sensation like no other place. Nowhere else does the sky have as broad a canvas on which dash and swirl clouds and sunbeams. The ivory landscape gently bends and curves, accentuated by subtle shadows cut by the wind and surrounded by a jagged horizon of dark mountains. Add in solitude and the overall effect is something not quite real but rather as if in a dream.
On the way there, I stopped in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where NBC was filming the pilot for a TV show called "Midnight, Texas." Las Vegas is also where numerous other movies, including one of my favorites, "No Country for Old Men," was filmed.
Later on the trip, I hiked North Franklin Mountain, the highest point in Texas' Franklin Mountains, spent an afternoon in El Paso, briefly (for about 15 minutes) crossed America's southern border into Juarez, Mexico, and attempted but failed to summit Sierra Blanca Peak in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains--there was just too much snow obscuring the trail above 10,000 feet.
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