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Published: April 29th 2009
Our morning began at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, an older museum in Alamogordo. While there, we learned about early rocketry, Skylab, meteorites, etcetera. Jeff & I walked through John P Stapp Air & Space Park while the boys played in a replica of a Mercury capsule. (No one with claustrophobic need have applied!)
Our next stops were in Roswell, where Mark Akland told us we had to go. The AAA Guidebook listed the Roswell Museum and Art Center as a GEM, so that's where we went first. It includes Dr Goddard's original laboratory, where he designed early rockets. They also have exhibits about western history--native Americans, conquistadors, etcetera. Most of the museum is art, though, and some of it was fabulous. Some was more contemporary and a bit on the weird side, but most was pretty cool.
We were done fairly early, so I talked Jeff into going to the International UFO Museum. (It would've seemed wrong to be in Roswell and not go there.) As expected, it was a bit on the hokey side, but some of the "proof" pictures they had were pretty cool.
Right now we're in Carlsbad near a severe watch
Roswell Museum & Art Center
Hiding Places of Nature's Power #4, by Darren Vigil Grayand tornado warning. It's always good to be near severe weather on vacation, because we never have enough of that at home.
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