"Wonderful, isn't it?" Tristan murmured.
I turned to look at him, awed. "Otherworldly." He smiled, staring at the white enchanted desert. "It's like the outside world doesn't exist." I sighed, wishing this feeling could last forever. "What's the name of this place?"
"White Sands," he said. "We're in the Tularosa Basin, which is actually larger than Delaware and a couple of Rhode Islands."
"Wow," I uttered and bent down to touch the sand. "Why is it like this?" I watched the glittering sand falling from my hand like a cascade of star dust. It felt like powder seeping through my fingers.
He bent down in front of me. "The Tularosa Basin contains the largest gypsum deposit on earth. The mineral erodes from the mountains and settles here to form crystals. Then these gypsum deposits are blow
