Best Western Sally Port Inn & Suites Roswell

... and bumper stickers. My favorite reads: Fasten your seat belt. It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car." <br><br>While Roswell does attract true believers and those who think they've been singled out for an intergalactic joy ride with complimentary anal probe--most, townspeople included--are just happy for a distraction from the anxiety and oppression of modern life. Especially when that distraction creates a steady stream of visitors renting hotel rooms ...

... range in depth from 17-90 feet. Legend has it that cowboys tried to find the bottom of the lake by tying their saddle ropes together.<br><br>The bottom is covered with a silty-gypsum, similar to what's found at the White Sands National Monument. <br><br>By the time I arrive and string up my hammock in a copse of trees (the park has both RV and tent sites) it's already 5pm but the sun is still high and the temperature hot. I decide to make my dive, but skip the dry suit ...

... dish-shaped antennas that are connected to create one huge radio telescope. They collect incoming radio signals that are able to create some of the most detailed pictures of outer space available.<br>In entries prior, I talked about the petrified forest and how tiny I felt there in the face of time. Well, the VLA telescopes make humanity seem even tinier! The images sent back contain very faint dots, which are in fact entire ...

... naj bi skusala vse to prikriti. Tudi Scully in Mulder sta menda ze raziskovala tod okoli. Mesto ima 45 tisoc prebivalcev (vsaj polovica njih mora biti po mojem nestrokovnem mnenju vesoljcev), skoraj vsaka trgovina pa prodaja marsovske spominke, cestna razsvetljava je v obliki glav vesoljcev, po ulici pa se sprehajajo neki cudni newagerji, ki najbrz iscejo kaksna ...

I am not the biggest fan of desert areas. The drive to Roswell and north from there was desert. It was interesting going to the Roswell alien museum. There are also some of the most beautiful sunsets in the desert, not much in the way of the view.

... hill. As you get to the home stretch, the landscape changes again, this time overtaken by tall grasses and some shorter trees. The stream has resurfaced and you meet it at a round little lake. "A good place for spotting wildlife" the trail guide explains, so again you are hoping and dreading encountering something large and ferocious. But again, there is no sign of anything scary, just a few patches of flattened grass where something big - perhaps a dear ...

... We didn't see any scorpions but we heard a rattlesnake and saw some tarantula burrows. <br><br>We left the site around 9.30 and had only driven a couple of miles out of the entrance when Neil suddenly exclaimed "Oh no", slowed down, pulled over and then turned back and went back the other way. Mel thought he had left something in the showers, but when he pulled over again and jumped out, it soon became clear what the fuss was about. A tortoise, crossing the road and which had been ...

... and would also have a chance to do the self guided tour through the Main Room. Roswell was a 2 hour drive away and there were no UFO sightings along the way. Ian is still convinced that we saw our UFO the day before. We pulled onto Main Street and right away we noticed that the street lights looked like UFO heads. Very funny. We stood there taking pictures for a bit. We then headed to the UFO museum. It was mesmerizing. There are so many accounts of sightings and cover ...

... pampered week at a beautiful resort (thanks Vaughans) and did some "coyote howling" at 2 NHL hockey games. Great fun!! Travelling south to Tucson we did some really interesting desert hiking in the National Park and Sabina Canyon. With J&J we headed down to experience the "Old West". Tombstone was so much fun - gunfights at the OK Corral, Big Nose Kate's Saloon (had a few cold ones!), stagecoachs travelling down the main street -totally restored to look like "the town too tough to die ...