A Little Letterboxing in Southern New Mexico

Well, Thomas and I finally left Santa Fe for our weekend in the southern part of the state. Our original plan was to leave on Friday - but alas, work intervened. It's all good - we still have a long weekend - it just now includes Monday instead of Friday. Anyway, we had a great drive today, the weather was perfect and the temperatures comfortable. We went to a couple of places we have never been before and really enjoyed our visits.

As we drove we saw a ton of antelope. From Clines Corners all the way to Carrizozo. We also had the most relaxing drive - hardly any traffic - it was so enjoyable. Our first stop was Three Rivers Petroglyphs. We have passed this place on numerous occasions and today we finally stopped. It was a most incredible one mile hike! There are over 21,000 petroglyphs at Three Rivers. We only saw a small sampling. They were amazing! If you are in the area it is definitely worth the stop.



From here we headed to Alamogordo. Here we stopped at Eagle Ranch to get some pistachios and then found somewhere to have a quick lunch. After lunch we headed to Desert Foothills Park and took another one mile walk. The day was nice, a little windy and a little warm. We finished our walk and then decided to head out to White Sands. We figured out that we hadn't visited there in about ten years. We walked the Dune Life Nature Trail and the Interdune Boardwalk. And then headed to the Heart of the Sands. In this area you can walk and climb all over the dunes. One thing we noticed was how bright everything was. Even with sunglasses on our eyes were burning from all the glare off of the sand.

Around 4:00pm we made our way from White Sands and headed for Cloudcroft. The drive into the Sacramento Mountains was beautiful. We had a pleasant 30 minute drive and ended up at The Lodge. Once we were checked in we took showers and changed. We ate dinner in Rebecca's Dining Room at The Lodge. It was a perfect meal. Once we finished dinner we decided to take a walk into town. We just walked along the main street and window shopped (everything was already closed). It was a nice way to end the day!

Oh, I almost forgot - we did do a little letterboxing. We found Atari E.T.-Random Weirdness Series-Box #3 and Windy Day. Both were pretty easy finds and nice boxes. We were 50/50 for today because there were two boxes we didn't find. It is possible they are missing - the clues have reports of attempted finds and the placer stated they may be missing. We enjoyed the searches anyway. I guess you can't win them all.