Day 18 - Deming, NM - Part One

"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."- Aristophanes

Day 18 - Alamogordo, NM to Deming, NM - Daily Distance - 121 miles - The Bucket Trip Distance - 3454 miles

Today, we got to do something that we hadn't had the chance to do yet on this road trip.

We stopped somewhere.

And all of us got out to see the sight, even my Mom.

Just like all of the other road trips my Mom and Jack have taken in the past.

Our first stop wasn't even ten minutes away, the White Sands National Park.

We head into the vistor site and begin to explore the displays. There's a film that runs continuously at one side and a gift store at the other.

After viewing the different displays, "The Kids" head into the gift store and start picking out the types of presents that grandparents give their grandchildren.

After buying the presents, they head over to watch the film that is about to start again.

I hang back becuase I'm starting to get hungry. I buy nature's perfect snack - an Uncrustable - and eat on the patio before going into the movie.

I'm not sure how much of it I missed but the movie basically covers why the White Sands area is so special and the people that have lived in this area.

Watching a movie that deals with a geological life span instead of a human life span can put your existance into perspective.

We are here for such a short moment in time.

White Sands has been here forever.

After the movie is over, my Mom and Jack are ready to take the driving tour of White Sands.

I look at my Mom and we are rolling out.

She is smiling.

"This is exactly what we would do on all of our other road trips."