Alien Invasion

August 15

We left Clyde Texas and took non-interstate 380 towards Roswell, NM, home of the 1947 UFO crash landing. It was amazing to see the miles and miles of cotton fields in west Texas. We ate lunch in Brownfield, TX which, besides cotton, claims to be the "grapevine capital" of Texas.
Once into New Mexico, the agriculture stopped and it became nothing but brush and large cattle ranches.  We made our into Roswell in the mid afternoon.

Aliens welcoming us to our campground

This is the entrance to our campground. As you can see, aliens are everywhere.  The WIFI password even was "aliens51". 
We stopped by the visitor center and got maps, etc. They even take your picture with visitors from out of state. Guess who is from Missouri.

As we had a few hours, we drove to Bottomless Lakes state park. The lakes are just large sinkholes with water in them and not bottomless.  One of the larger lakes has a beach and swimming.

August 16

We left the campground and headed to the International UFO Museum in downtown Roswell.  It has detailed displays of the Roswell Incident along with many affidavits and testimony of witnesses.  One of the authors of several books on the subject gave a presentation on the incident. There were over 600 people who witnessed some of the weird happenings that occurred and the governments responses. However, there is no physical evidence. There are eyewitness claims that the Army picked up all the stuff and the dead aliens and flew them out to top secret hidings.
It was amazing to us how many people where at this museum early on a Friday morning. 

Some of the visitors to the museum

We then headed out of Roswell on our way to Alamogordo, NM to meet up with Keri, Elliott, and kids on Saturday, the 17th, to let the kids camp with us, swim in the KOA pool, visit White Sands, and then head toward Santa Fe. The weather has been brutal, high 90's to over 100 in the afternoon. But, it is a dry heat.