On Thursday, we reluctantly left the
Santa Fe Skies RV Park (one of the best parks we've been to), and drove through the flat ranchlands of central New Mexico. Our path of over 200 miles led us
through some itty, bitty towns, like Ramone (only one abandoned building with a
couple of outbuildings nearby) and Mesa (a single abandoned gas station). We
also passed through one slightly larger town, Encina, with two gas stations but
no grocery store we could see. We wondered where people shop for anything other
than beef jerky and Schlitz. Hmmm.
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| Mulder |
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| Scully |
In any case, we arrived in
Roswell and set up camp at
Bottomless Lakes State Park, a nice campground a loooong way from anything. There are several “bottomless”
lakes here which are actually collapsed caves, or sinkholes, that are filled
with water. The one closest to the campground is not a particularly large lake
by surface area, but is actually 90 feet deep and over 2.5 million gallons of
water flow through it everyday. Scuba diving is taught here during the summer
and lots of swimmers take advantage of the clear water as well.
We drove back into
Roswell, stopping first at the visitor center for a
boatload of information about the town and its attractions, as well as stuff to
see farther south. The visitor center guide was extremely informative and gave
us a bunch of brochures which she tucked into a bag labeled ominously, “Evidence”.
Everything in Roswell is alien related. The town’s tagline is: Roswell…Visitors
Welcome. Ha!
We started with the
International UFO Museum and Research Center in the
middle of town. For a nominal entrance fee and several hours of our time, we
read and saw a mountain of evidence about the 1947 Roswell Incident and
countless other events, including crop circles, alien abductions, and the historical
records of alien landings by numerous civilizations going back hundreds of
years. We saw a wall of pictures of flying saucers and the logical explanations
of some of those pictures as hubcaps, buttons, hats, and other common items. It
was a fun museum and we totally enjoyed reading all about the evidence collected,
cover up stories concocted and enduring mysteries surrounding the
Roswell Incident, but the written testimony of one after another after another person
involved in some way with the initial discovery of the crashed UFO, cleanup of
the crash site, transportation of the alien bodies, or anything else related,
was really interesting. We’re convinced it actually happened.
After the museum, we stopped at
Pepper’s Café for happy hour drinks and appetizers, and then stayed for a yummy dinner, too. Next, we drove around town
taking pictures of aliens in different places here and there. We found one at
the KFC, another at the Arby's inviting aliens, another on a cellphone with his spaceship at a hotel, and still another standing on a
corner next to a UFO shop. There are little green men advertising loans,
selling fireworks, playing a guitar on the side of a Mexican restaurant, and
smiling from in front of a furniture store. The town’s ordinary streetlights
even have alien eyes painted on them! How silly!
On Thursday, we reluctantly left the Santa Fe Skies RV Park (one of the best parks we've been to), and drove through the flat ranchlands of central New Mexico. Our path of over 200 miles led us
through some itty, bitty towns, like Ramone (only one abandoned building with a
couple of outbuildings nearby) and Mesa (a single abandoned gas station). We
also passed through one slightly larger town, Encina, with two gas stations but
no grocery store we could see. We wondered where people shop for anything other
than beef jerky and Schlitz. Hmmm.
We drove back into Roswell, stopping first at the visitor center for a
boatload of information about the town and its attractions, as well as stuff to
see farther south. The visitor center guide was extremely informative and gave
us a bunch of brochures which she tucked into a bag labeled ominously, “Evidence”.
Everything in Roswell is alien related. The town’s tagline is: Roswell…Visitors
Welcome. Ha!
We started with the International UFO Museum and Research Center in the
middle of town. For a nominal entrance fee and several hours of our time, we
read and saw a mountain of evidence about the 1947 Roswell Incident and
countless other events, including crop circles, alien abductions, and the historical
records of alien landings by numerous civilizations going back hundreds of
years. We saw a wall of pictures of flying saucers and the logical explanations
of some of those pictures as hubcaps, buttons, hats, and other common items. It
was a fun museum and we totally enjoyed reading all about the evidence collected,
cover up stories concocted and enduring mysteries surrounding the Roswell Incident, but the written testimony of one after another after another person
involved in some way with the initial discovery of the crashed UFO, cleanup of
the crash site, transportation of the alien bodies, or anything else related,
was really interesting. We’re convinced it actually happened.
After the museum, we stopped at Pepper’s Café for happy hour drinks and appetizers, and then stayed for a yummy dinner, too. Next, we drove around town
taking pictures of aliens in different places here and there. We found one at
the KFC, another at the Arby's inviting aliens, another on a cellphone with his spaceship at a hotel, and still another standing on a
corner next to a UFO shop. There are little green men advertising loans,
selling fireworks, playing a guitar on the side of a Mexican restaurant, and
smiling from in front of a furniture store. The town’s ordinary streetlights
even have alien eyes painted on them! How silly!
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