White Sands, NM 
SINE
White Sands, New Mexico.,
CORONADO
So this is White Sands. It’s as white as chalk.
SINE
It makes chalk. Gypsum makes chalk... Not sand.
CORONADO
So this is what goes into drywall.
AURA
It’s in the alabaster the ancients used for sculpture. Thine alabaster cities gleam.
CORONADO
It’s in fertilizer, too. For amber waves of grain. See, I know that song. - It’s a wonder it’s still here.
AURA
It’s a National Monument.
CORONADO
Oh.
SINE
It’s in Chinese shi gao medicine. In tofu, too.
AURA
Really!
SINE
But if we can get back to White Sands for minute: The guidebook and links you told me about say White Sands Missile Range is next to the National Monument, and is where the Space Shuttle lands sometimes. That was before the Russian Soyuz and Musk's Falcon began. The man that built the first liquid-fuel rocket is the man that started rockets here. He moved to Roswell when the Massachusetts fire marshal made him stop.
AURA
I wonder if what people thought was a UFO was actually that guy experimenting. I never heard of that before.
SINE
I’m still reading. Hah! What got the Shuttle here was acceleration and deceleration tests they did on monkeys and humans here. I did not know that. They launched chimp monkeys into low orbit and then they trained Shuttle pilots here. I did not know that. Hah!. And you know what? And this is not in guidebook: I know that gypsum dunes are at north pole on Mars.
CORONADO
Maybe you can get her into the Tesla yet.
AURA
I don’t think so . . .
CORONADO
It does look like another planet, doesn’t it . . .
AURA
It’s beautiful. Why don’t you two go to your pal Elon Musk’s place. How about I get my stuff and start up a painting.
SINE
It’s three hours away. Let’s stay the night here.
CORONADO
Start painting, lady.