Blogs from New Mexico, United States, North America - page 84

So!!!! Just throwing this one out there. And I know Nikkie will write a whole lot more about this, because this is a place close to her heart. The town of Sile is about 35 minutes north of Albuquerque next to the Rio Grande river. It's a town, home to few, that rarely apperars on any map. It is a stretch of land located between two Indian Pueblos: Cochiti and Santo Domingo. I always joke saying Sile has 3 houses, 5 people, 10 dogs, 20 cows and 50 chickens. Ha ha. Sile is where Nikkie's grandma lives. All family gatherings take place here. Everybody goes there for Christmas and Thanksgiving. There is never a shortage of beans, chile or tortillas. Well I bring up Sile because this is a special place to us. It was December ... read more

She seemed to have been wearing the same bright blue mumu for the last few days. She was always jovial, which is a becoming traight for anyone weighing in at well over 200 pounds. ¨Did you get that basket case back together?¨ ¨Yup, but I´m taking her apart again.¨ I replied. ¨wel, honey, it sounds like an exercize in futility to me¨ she said, presuming it a pearl of wisdom, I´m sure. ¨Well, at least I´m getting some exercize¨ She just giggled and waddled on. I guess she didn´t get the joke. I´d been in Silver City for two days and had set out to leave that morning. Since Tucson all I´d done was find problems with the bike. That day, when I picked her up from Copper Country Motorcycles (the first ever motorcycle shop run ... read more

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We picked up a rental car at the El Paso airport and headed northeast on Highway 62/180 to Carlsbad where we then headed north on Highway 285 to Roswell. Roswell is an attractive city of over 45,000 people and is the county seat of Chaves County. It is most famous for its UFO Museum and Research Center which attracts millions of visitors from throughout the world. In 1947, a mysterious crash occurred in the desert outside of the town and was later referred to as the Roswell Incident. There were reports of an alien spacecraft and aliens, both of which were supposedly taken away by the military to some undisclosed location, and this led to the accusations of a coverup by the U.S. government. Since that time, there has been sightings of UFOs from around the ... read more

Fell asleep last night before Sister Act even ended. I should be punished. Left this morning for the Four Corners, which is where Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico all meet up. I really liked it a lot. It was a lot of fun telling people that I was in 4 different states at once. Stopped in Cortez, Colorado for gas and lunch, lots of people in cowboy hats. Still more hitch hikers which I find so bizarre. Unfortunately for them, there's no room in the car. At one point yesterday we passed a really tiny gas station, and the sign out front said, "Lotto-Guns-Ammo-Beer". Ah yes, all of the necessities. It continued to rain all day today which was kind of lame, but at least it was not a million degrees like yesterday and the ... read more