Oxygen

 2/16- Alamogordo NM

   We found out today what it was like to try bike riding over 5000 feet. Alamogordo is built on the sloping side of a mountain in the Lincoln National Forest. So while traversing from north to south the roads are fairly level but go east and west and you run into some steepness. It didn’t take much of an uphill to suck the air out of my lungs. Fortunately the other half of the trip was down but even pedaling on the flat roads was deflating. 

    The section of town we rode through was higher up and thus higher priced homes also. The houses here while still only single story were bigger and mostly made of brick or adobe. There were plenty of churches, seemingly one on every other street corner.  There was also a spectacular view of the entire White Sands area from up on the hill. It was cool to see the strip of bright white contrasting with the dark silhouettes of the mountains.

   Tomorrow we get on the move again.