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4/2/2008

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2 April ‘08

Wednesday

We finally got our car back… For the last couple of months we’ve had this howl coming from the transmission area and I just felt that Sierra Vista might be the place for us to have it looked at.  The work was all done under warrantee and they thought they might be able to get it done for us in 3 or 4 days.  Well it took 7, but who’s counting???

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After picking up the car at the dealer, I found that it had the sound of a vibration so back I went.  To shorten this up a little, a couple of months ago we went into the red clay area of Yuma and put so much of that “goo” under and around the car, that I wasn’t able to get it off even after using the under car power wash 3 times.  Now the dealer decided that it just had to be some of that mud that was stuck on the rear wheels and putting them out of balance.  OK, let’s not argue the point, let’s just give it a try…so we are…  Well, we pulled out this morning from Sierra Vista and are hoping for the best.  Our route took us east on Arizona Hwy 10 all the way to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico and the glistening white sands of the Tularosa Basin.

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The Tularosa Basin is in the northern end of the Chihuahua Desert…is that too much information?  Anyway our first stop was at the White Sands Visitor Center.  There we learned about proving grounds were they test fire all the missiles, sometimes land the space shuttle, and the 8 mile circular drive through the “White Sands National Monument”.  About two miles off of the highway, we found waves of glistening white gypsum dunes.

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The brilliant white gypsum dunes are the largest in the world and we’re running around in our bare feet to really “get the feel”.  The semi constant blowing wind (it was blowing pretty good today) is constantly changing the look of the dunes by moving them about 30 feet a year. 

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