Aliens

Today we drove from Albuquerque to Roswell and then on to Carlsbad. It was a nostalgic drive for us because we drove this route many times while Tom was a student at NMMI. Clines Corners is where you turn toward Vaughn and the road from Vaughn to Roswell is long, straight and boring! There is absolutely nothing to see and the road is absolutely straight. When I was in high school and Tom was a cadet I would load the car with girls and go to the dances in Roswell. It made Tom and me both very popular! Him because I brought dates for his friends and me because the dances were nice and Tom provided dates for all my friends.

This GPS scene stayed the same for miles and miles! No turns, to houses or towns and not many cows to see. So while I have this picture with not much to say about it I will tell you that Bill and I spent our honeymoon in Roswell and even went to a dance the night we got married. Then the next day we went back to Albuquerque and he went back to work (he was a PFC in the Army stationed at Sandia Base). Those were the days, my friend!

I thought you may not believe the GPS so I took this picture out the front window. See? Nothing to see! The only thing to break the pattern were the three trains that were going by so I took a picture of that. It is always pretty to see the LONG trains on the flat mesa.

Here's the train. Move on down the page and you will see the UFO Museum. It was pretty cool. All new since we used to go to Roswell. Back in the 60's nobody talked about the UFOs or mentioned them at all. I thought maybe it was too soon after the event but Clem said they just hadn't figured out that they could make a buck from it yet. He's probably right.

This is a building at the New Mexico Military Institute. I put it in for Tom. He will remember it. NMMI has grown (hasn't everything!) It is still a beautiful place.

Okay, I skipped to the good stuff. Here is photographic evidence of UFOs. The museum has lots of pictures and newspaper articles and hand written statements from people who have been abducted. It even has a wall dedicated to removing alien implants people have turned up with. I took lots more pictures but I will only put a couple here. You get the idea.

This little guy was the last thing we saw. They don't pretend it's real but it is kinda cute.

Tomorrow we will tour the caverns and go to a park close by. I'll have lots of pictures of those.

We are getting closer to home and home is sounding really good to me.