Las Cruces

Not much to tell about today, we left Oliver Lee Memorial State Park and traveled south through the Tularosa Basin. Tonight we are in Las Cruces - did I mention that Las Cruces is the second largest city in New Mexico? It doesn't rise high, it kind of oozes out, in all directions, across the desert floor.
We are here to re-supply and to do laundry, which we completed this afternoon. Clean sheets tonight!

The San Andres Mountains that form the western side of the basin.

Typical desert-looking mountain.

The south end of the basin, and the backdrop of Las Cruces on the other side, these are the Organ Mountains, as in pipe organ. This picture may look hazy but it's not smog. Today was very windy and this is blowing sand. In fact, we could not even get another picture of the White Sands National Monument because the dunes were obscured by blowing gypsum.

We liked this little pointy mountain.

And here's that rest stop again, on the edge of the White Sands Missile Range.