Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Monahans Sandhills State Park, TX - Mar 11-12
This is a 3840-acre park set in the middle of a 200-mile wide sand dune field in Western Texas and SE New Mexico. We had no trouble getting in at 2pm, but the campground was close to full every night (spring break).
There is normally not much to do here other than walk or surf the dunes (especially if the TV is broken, which we found out ours is when we got here), but this week they were experimenting with camel rides. Since Doug has pictures of his parents riding camels in front of the Great Pyramids, we decided this was a good opportunity for us to be pictured on a camel (albeit in a little less historic setting). 
Each ride only lasted about 5 minutes, but that was long enough to get the feel of the rolling gait atop one of these beasts, as well as the lurching when either standing up or kneeling down. After a day at White Sands and 2 days here, the trailer needs a good vacuuming, once we're at a place with electricity.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 5:04 PM 
