(photos: Sierra Blanca and a setting moon in the morning from my dad's back porch; the rental car with the remnants of my drive through the dust storm and tumbleweed bonanza from the day before; dunes at White Sands -- note the bushes on top of the dunes are actually the tops of buried cottonwood trees; me at White Sands; and some visitors hiking across the dunes.)
(photos: My footsteps coming down a dune; a map of the park (outlined in yellow); the roadrunner I saw when leaving the park; the giant pistachio in front of the pistachio/winery shop; and roasted corn chowder... mmmmm...)
(photos: View of Sierra Blanca from the lobby of the Inn of the Mountain Gods; Billy the Kid's goodies; hello, pickelhaube; some of the horse breeds frolicking in a statue in front of the Hubbard Museum of the American West; and a pint of Moose Drool --note the drooling moose on the glass!)
(photos: View of Smokey the Bear Gap in the Capitan Mountains, the gap where the bear cub was found during a fire; Smokey the Bear's grave; hello, cowboy boots; proof that the west isn't dead, if you can ride your horse (or burro) through town in Lincoln; and views of the graves of two victims of the Lincoln County War.)
(photos: The main street of Lincoln, looking just as much the same as it did during its violent heyday in the early 1880s; gunshots supposedly from Billy the Kid during his escape from the courthouse; apparently masons were behind the Lincoln County War, too; the road back toward Ruidoso; and the country-western bar Win, Place, and Show ("W.P.S." by its true fans).)
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My sister totally has the Moose Drool glass! I ended up with the ScapeGoat I think--gift from my parents from Montana. The West seems to have fantastically named breweries :)
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