http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , New Mexico , Roswell en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 15:57:22 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:57:22 +0000 27th Aug 12 Roswell New Mexico Roswell is much larger than I expected as we have arrived late yesterday we havent looked around properly yet saving that for today but we did pass McDonalds and Looci it no longer looks like a space ship Im gutted They have built a kids play area onto it how dare they But the lamp posts all have alien heads so thats good and Arbys welcomes http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-739541.html What a great day today We had been looking forward to visiting Lincoln New Mexico. This is where Billy the Kid escaped from Pat Garrett and shot several people. It was a great piece of history and Mason did a project on New Mexico in school and this was something he was looking forward to seeing. Imagine our surprise when we showed up to find out it was Lincoln County Days going on. We were able http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-726869.html Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico United States. The population was 48366 at the 2010 census. It is a center for irrigation farming dairying ranching manufacturing distribution and petroleum production. It is also the home of New Mexico Military Institute NMMI founded in 1891. Bitter Lake National Wildlife Ref http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-683927.html Thursday August 11 Roswell Capitan Ft StantonIts about 10 AM Thursday morning and starting to warm up so guess I had better close up my office and go by somewhere that has WiFi. Today I will take a look at the Bottomless Lakes and tour Roswell and then head West to Lincoln.Got up around 8AM and after having a breakfast of cereal and coffee loaded up and headed into Roswell. Kinda g http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-636721.html 72511 Phoenix ArizonaDriving is Cathartic. This dawned on me while driving the 498 mile stretch from Long Beach to Paradise Valley Phoenix when I realized 300 miles in that I hadnt been listening to any music or radio. I was lost in my thoughts the desert scenery my hopes for this trip. This first day really captured my intent for this journey. As far as travel is concerned I want to http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-632198.html Nancy39s Entry This is the day Kevin has most been looking forward to and it39s a highlight for me as well. We are traveling to Roswell New Mexico. You might know it as the site of the Roswell UFO incident where supposed aliens crashed in 1947 but to Kevin39s it39s his college hometown. Kevin attended New Mexico Military Institute from 1981 1983 where he received his commissi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-615545.html We woke up about 7.30am showered packed our stuff and headed down to the lobby for free breakfast. Scotts eggs were yuk but my waffles and toast were nice. We drove down into town to check out the UFO museum as they opened at 9am. They had a whole timeline of the Roswell incident which was quite fascinating. The whole incident boils down to whether you believe that a UFO crashed in R http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-539963.html Left Santa Fe on Sunday headed for Texas. We stopped in Roswell at the Int'l UFO Museum Research Center. Sounds more official than it is...lots of newspaper clippings or should I say lots of different copies of the same newspaper clippings and the highlight of it was the mock up of an alien from the movie Roswell. As we were in Roswell we HAD to stop but I'm not thinking it's much of a de http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-528552.html Roswell StrangenessOn the way to Roswell this morning while we continued to search the fence posts for the alleged Road Runner we passed through the most beautiful little place called Artesia. The high school football stadium looked like the Swamp in Gainesville I have never seen anything like it. There were bronze statues all over the town and the local theatre was advertising stimulus sp http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-484791.html October 21 2009This morning we left Gallup at about 845am. The city is actually in a Navaho reservationthis just means that they own the landit doesnt look any different from any other city I had visions of teepees and Native Americans in full dress but thats not the case. Like many of the Native American areas weve been in the city seemed quite impoverished with few resources http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-447276.html It39s not a secret that I am the more adventurous one meaning I don39t care what people think of me when I do something odd. So for the last 3 months I have said we should go to ROSWELL New Mexico for the ROSWELL INTERNATIONAL UFO FESTIVAL over the 4th of July weekend. This was met a very definitive NO every time I brought it up. I kept at it and finally she said yes persistence pays http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-422198.html We finally left the West Texas country and entered into The Land of Enchantment. The landscape as you can see in the photos changed from the creosote bush AKA greasewood to grassy rangeland. BTW the creosote bush can live up to 900 years Betcha didnt know that. In fact the plants can clone themselves and may be the oldest living organisms on Earththings that make you sayhmmmm. We http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-422112.html We stopped for American breakfast in town and Vincenzo ate 1 out of 3 pancakes. The landscape is much different and the heat is starting to get drier. We stopped in Historic Fort Stockton to check out the fort the largest statue of a roadrunner was just a bonus. Hunger took over and Israel asked some guy working on a house where a good restaurant was. The guy looked at him blankly so Israel s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-418116.html As we drove from Dallas to Amarillo along Route 66 everything was exactly as I imagined it would be. The road was long straight and quiet passing by cattle ranches oil derricks and dusty green crop fields. The 'middleofnowhere' 'nothingeverhappenshere' towns we drove through were very Deliveranceesque there may have been no porch sitting banjo players but that was simply because there http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-385965.html Bottomless Lakes State ParkI had to get out an explore this awesome region. I started out in the ecosystem where the Chihuahuan Desert kisses the grasslands at the Bottomless Lakes State Park. It's a great geological area. It is a chain of eight sinkhole lakes ranging from 1790 feet deep. They were formed when the circulating ground water from the Capitan Mountain range adds into the artesia http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-370797.html Wisconsin to New Mexico in Record Time We have arrived... Chris had to come over the Sacramento Mountains from Alamogorda... and I had a little farther... I made the 1700 mile trek in a record 21 hours. Don't do the math on my mileshour the Oklahoma State Troopers did that for all of us... Opps I got off with a warning. I have to thank Erin Doyle and Jon Potter for jaw jacking with me on the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-370783.html After our episode in Deming we finally left Sunday morning for Roswell. We're not sure what it was we were expecting to find. It's just a small New Mexico town that has an alienUFO story dating back to 1949. That's it. There is the UFO Museum Research Center and then there are a few shops that sell alien themed Tshirts shot glasses and such. I thought the lamp posts were original so please ch http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-321781.html Well where we last left off we'd gotten into Farmington NM but it was too late in the day to visit Aztec Ruins National Monument. So we went there this morning. It didn't open till 800 so we had breakfast a diner next to the hotel then headed over. Actions tend to have equal and opposite reactions and since we were originally planning on leaving the area at 800 that set us back a bit. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-310727.html RoswellI didnt know much about Roswell prior to our arrival. In fact the only thing that came to mind was UFOs and an alleged spaceship crash in 1947. Of course we had to visit the UFO Museum and Research Center while we were in the area but we also visited the Roswell Museum and Art Center. We enjoyed our visit to Roswell and the surrounding area. I was surprised that this is an area for http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-257242.html Hello from UFO central.I had a fun and laid back day today here in Roswell. It started off earlier than I planned when strange noises were all around the RV about 520. Oh wait it was just the city trash truck coming through more than an hour BEFORE sunrise picking up the trashSo I was up plenty early had breakfast and did some housekeeping vacuuming mopping and dishes before the office http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-219151.html