At 12:22 AM 11/28/2002 -0500, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
>What a wierd place! You say it's on _this_ planet? I'd say you metered
>and composed well. Nice job.
Thanks. Yeah, White Sands looks a lot like Mars, in my mind. Also got several
more rolls here, as well as at places like Tent Rocks (near Santa Fe, if memory
serves), which is so strange looking that it's been used by Hollywood for a
number of movies and several series, the most notable of which (at least to me)
was "Earth II" back in the mid-Nineties.
White Sands is several hundred square miles, most of which is off-limits to
civvies 'cause the pilots at Holloman AFB use it as a weapons testing and
practise range. Unfortunately, that also means we weren't able to get a
close-up look at Trinity (where they detonated the first atomic bomb) 'cause
it's on the northern end of the range. However, there were a lot of F117A
Stealth fighters flying around the skies over White Sands, which was
interesting.
While Alamogordo doesn't have a lot to offer in itself, it was fairly central
to a number of sights around southeastern New Mexico, so it made a good base of
operations. It was relatively cheap, too -- $58.00 U.S./night for an executive
suite at the Best Western Desert Aire. (In fact, with the exception of the two
nights we stayed at Star Hill Inn, we *never* paid more than $58.00 U.S./night
anywhere, including a suite hotel in the Denver Tech Center -- gotta love
making reservations via Expedia, even if it is controlled by the Evil Empire...
8^> ).
Garth
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