{"id":3997,"date":"2016-05-30T13:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2022-07-03T20:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:50:13","slug":"white-sands-national-monument-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=3997","title":{"rendered":"White Sands National Monument &#8211; impressive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed in Alamogordo NM for a few days and visited the White Sands National Monument while here.\u00a0 I was surprised that it is a sand dunes area; for some reason I thought it would be like a dried up lakebed, flat and crusty.\u00a0 It was very impressive!\u00a0 There is quite a bit of vegetation living in the dunes and some plants have adapted to the constant shifting of the sands by putting out a large web of roots so when the dunes shift, they hold onto a small pedestal of sand and stay put.\u00a0 There are lots of animal life as well, we saw 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