I met a gentleman from Louisiana in the hotel in Alamogordo.

Wait a minute. That doesn’t sound right.

What I mean is that I crossed paths with a gentleman from Louisiana and we had a chat in the hotel lobby. He’d come all the way from Monroe to see the dunes (and what he called the “yucca trees”) and was interested in what our group was finding. He said he hoped I got a photo of the sunset.

I did. And this is it.

(Probably to your great relief, this is the end of White Sands. Thanks for sticking with me!)

White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025