White Sands National Monument is a huge area made up of gypsum sand. I have already earned my Junior Ranger badge from here.
The sand, or actually, gypsum crystals, does not stick to your body, which is pretty nice. Mama joked about filling up the trunk with it to fill up our sandbox at home. This place, with all the gypsum sand dunes, is the largest one like this on the entire earth. I was there early in the morning and I started to feel very hot. I wore sunblock but it was definitely time to leave and not be there in the middle of the day. Evening is a nice time to be at White Sands but that didn’t work out this time.