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Shortly after sunset I was delayed in a very unfriendly way at one of those check points and lost quite some time sitting in my car waiting.

The white sands national monument was great today!

Watch me eating dust

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I had a moment of anxiety at a check point right before the sands. I didn’t exspect something like that. The guy ask me if I would have my passport with me. I said no and he made a grimace. I imagined the worst, sitting in a room with bars for hours, waiting for the time they would have checked everything and would let me go again …or not..you never know. He went into the office with my ID and after a few minutes his boss let me keep on driving with the advice that I should always carry my passport with me. I said that it was to late for that now and ask him if there are more of those check points and he said that there were some in this area and I will probably bump into a few. Oh boy.

This was actually a bit scary 70 miles…nothing, nothing, nothing and a million signs reminding you that you can expect nothing, nothing, nothing. There weren’t even any speed limit signs…just signs who would “suggest” a speed for the curves. From the moment I left this remote area and I was on a newer highway the speed limit signs were back…interesting.

I saw two cars in two hours. The views from the mountains right after Alpine are incredible and I bet biker would love it.

The copper mine near Clifton was quite impressive…I have never seen a mine of this size before….man kind eating mountain