Jack Black! In the Desert!

The first truly ridiculous thing we saw out west was White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The link will explain the science behind its formation better than I will, but you have to understand how strange a place it is. You’re driving through one kind of desert – the standard southwestern scrubland we became very well acquainted with – when suddenly you come across another, completely different kind of desert – a la the Sahara.

The name says it all really. There is white sand. And lots of it.