No worries, I haven't forget about blogging on just this second full week of the New Year. It didn't take long into 2010 for our first trip, though it was just a quickie 3-day weekend to Las Cruces, New Mexico to meet-up with Todd's brother and also check out some of the local sights (and even more importantly, the food!). I had never been to this part of NM and it was an instrumental part of Todd's youth as he went to college in Las Cruces and grew up in nearby Alamogordo. One thing is for sure, in New Jersey, I certainly didn't grow up near mountains or deserts or... atomic bomb explosion sites (and NJ gets the bad rap, ha!)
So instead of writing here, I have been busy catching up on some work and uploading pictures to Flickr. I was fairly controlled, taking only about 140 photos. Ah, the age of the digital cameras when a number like that doesn't seem like much! Typically, I only post about 20%-ish of the photos I take (there is a lot of experimenting going on + good 'ole just not good ones), but I think that percentage will be a bit higher from this trip. I have a couple dozen more to go through, but have a bunch up right now.
Here is a pic from the White Sands National Monument. It was high on our list of things to see. I have seen plenty of Southwestern desert landscapes, so I was a bit unsure about it going in, but it was truly spectacular. There was even a thin layer of snow here and there that added a nice extra something to it (even Todd had never seen any kind of snow there).
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