Roswell Inn

... the time to give me an interview and tour of the museum and research facilities.

She shows me a colorful mural, painted by local high school art students depicting their interpretation of the "UFO crash." There are bright orange flames shooting up from a metalic disk, injured and dead aliens are scatterd on the ground. There are books and videos, newspaper clippings and other things sent in by the public--including a jacket from NASA.

Shuster is candid and good ...

... 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.

The bottom is covered with a silty-gypsum, similar to what's found at the White Sands National Monument.

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 ...

... the alternate theories too. There were lots of photos of supposed UFOs and information about them and whether they were fakes or not.

Again the essential fridge magnet was purchased together with an inflatable green alien. I know... why?

Having not had any sunny weather prior to Roswell, the weather here was a little bit of a shock to the system. Hardly a cloud in the sky and the temperature was over 30C and a very dry heat.

We had not taken a picture ...

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.

... Abe mounted up with Dale on his Goldwing for the remainder of the ride while Sandra stayed with me. We pulled into Hobbs dismounted and unstrapped Sandra's remains and riding gear from my bike and loaded them along with Abe into the pastor's car who would complete the task of getting Sandra's remains to the service. Dale, Danny, Liz and I grabbed some lunch at the North 40, visited and then headed home. We headed out of ...

...nice drive till Roswell but the museum stay a nice place, ok it relates some moreless true facts but anyway it has a great collection of items which are serious newspaper articles or funny comics, the visit is very funny...

after this i couldn't locate any military base (for the photo souvenir)...even with a GPS or looking at planes in the sky, they were not...if there is an airbase in roswell, it might be kind of far from the city...

... a slight flight error and crashed their "ship" just outside of town. If you think about it and actually travel in this part of the world if ever extra terrestrials were going to come and check us out it would be here and then that it would have been. It was around here that the first nuclear bomb was developed and tested. For years the first ever rockets were launched here, lots of exciting/scary stuff was going on that could have led you (or ...

... into the Guadalupe National Park. It's the mountain range that borders Mexico! Finally, out of no where, there were a few random, nondescript buildings. I asked Renee if she thought we should turn in since it could be the last sight of civilization... No answer... So, I pulled in. Turns out it was the Texas Department of Transportation and a building for Park Rangers. Heck yeah! We pulled a truck over that was ...

... ever manufactured was putting and moaning outside my room. There did not seem to be anyone else staying there. The whole thing reminded me of "Psycho" Another weird thing was that the bathrooms were between the dorm room and you could lock your dorm room so the other rooms could not get in from the bathroom but anyone could walk in on you in the bathroom! So I guess it was a good thing no one else was staying there.

... tuscun-- so you were limited in how much you could carry. anyway we made it to bottomless lake state park a setup camp. had a sandwhich and went for walk aound park----we saw one very beautiful sunset. the sunset did not give us a clue to what was coming later that night.