{"id":51,"date":"2010-06-06T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-06-06T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:53:00","slug":"lincoln-national-forest-white-sands-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln National Forest, White Sands National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove through Lincoln National Forest, which had many forest-y mountains.\u00a0 The altitude change was pretty significant (4,000 feet in 25 miles as I recall).\u00a0 You could see the white sands of White Sands off in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Next we stopped at the Space History Museum in Alamogordo.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive facility and very interactive.\u00a0 (Ham, the first space-chimp, is buried on site.)<\/p>\n<p>Then we went on to White Sands National Monument and drove through.\u00a0 It was very, very warm, so we did little walking.\u00a0 I did buy a used sled at the gift shop ($10 used, $14.95 new) and went down one dune.\u00a0 They sell sled wax.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to make you go faster.&#8221;\u00a0 The clerk claimed the green wax is actually the high-performance wax.<\/p>\n<p>We drove the loop road, walked on the boardwalk (where I got impressive static electric shock from walking on the plastic boardwalk&#8230;. GRRR!), and took some photos.\u00a0 After our drive, I returned our sled for a small refund ($3 for used sleds, $5 for new).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TAvC98S4acI\/AAAAAAAAAUc\/d44IqB2G9Dw\/s1600\/small2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TAvC98S4acI\/AAAAAAAAAUc\/d44IqB2G9Dw\/s640\/small2.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove through Lincoln National Forest, which had many forest-y mountains.\u00a0 The altitude change was pretty significant (4,000 feet in 25 miles as I recall).\u00a0 You could see the white sands of White Sands off in the distance. Next we stopped at the Space History Museum in Alamogordo.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive facility and very interactive.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}