New Friends in New Mexico
Trip Start
Sep 03, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
Fort Stockton,
Texas,
United States
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Mostly what we saw today
About an hour out of Albuquerque, we came upon a parade of 11 vintage Porsches. We found out later, at a rest stop, that they were meeting another Porsche Club for a rally. Great fun, and beautiful cars. 
Porsche Parade
We turned South mid-morning, and headed across New Mexico for Texas. Outside a little town in New Mexico, we let Ken out to do his business, and he came back with a new friend (See picture - Ken's new friend). 
Ken and his new friend
He had wandered beyond a fence that said "US Government property, Top Secret - Keep out". If I recall, the name of the town was Roswell New Mexico.Seriously folks, we just had to stop in Roswell. They do not take themselves very seriously, and the space alien business is HUGE for the otherwise nothing town. The downtown streetlights are a scream! The T-Shirts in the alien shop are really clever, like: Alien, the other gray meat. We had a fun time looking at the stuff.
Roswell street light....Sleep tight
No wonder they're strange!
I wuv you this much, Earthling!
New Friends
We lost an hour going back into Central time (only 1 zone to go!), and arrived at Fort Stockton at 6:00 PM. It is a nice one-horse town, but the horse left! It was a stop on the Santa Fe Railroad, but no longer. An exit on I-10 put them back on the map. They have a giant Road Runner statue in "Downtown". (Wiley was nowhere in sight), and a sample Oil Pumper-thingy you can get an up-close look at. Pretty neat. All-in-all we saw a lot of open land.
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Oilwell Pumper-thingy
Tomorrow it's off to San Antonio and Brother John.
