Goodbye Whites City. Next stop, Roswell. We stop at the
Subway to get lunch for later on the road. The Subway is smack in the middle of
the UFO Zone. The Alien Industry is very cheap.
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| The International UFO Museum |
Why not call it the Intergalactic UFO Museum? How
Earth-first of us!
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Ancients of Days
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| Planet Roswell |
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| Alien Zone |
A more serious side to Roswell is its Museum of Art. It is housed
in a building created by the WPA during the Depression.
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| Roswell Museum of Art |
Our ultimate destination is Las Vegas, New Mexico (much
older than the Nevada city). We drive on for another half hour, then stop in a Rest Area to eat our lunch. It’s not too hot yet, and there is plenty of shade,
so all is well. After a leisurely lunch, we get back on the road. Most of
today’s drive has been in very desolate country.
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| Highway just south of Las Vegas, NM |
We arrive at our destination, in the middle of the Historic
District.
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| The Plaza Hotel |
Las Vegas is at the junction of the Great Plains, the
Southern Rockies and the Chihuahua Desert. It is a long day’s stagecoach ride from
Santa Fe. It was the up and coming metropolis in the late 1800’s but has been
in decline ever since. With a population of 13,500, and a list of 950 buildings
on the National Register of Historic Places, you can tell that this town has
seen some history. But it is also a bit sad since many of those historic
buildings sit vacant.
One that is not vacant is a book store that has a great
name, Tome on the Range.
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| Tome on the Range |
We walk around the downtown to consider our dining options.
We resolve to dine at the hotel, after a round of drinks in the Saloon. Amy has
the Plaza Burger and I have the Spanish Enchiladas. Dinner is tasty and we call
it a night.
We have now been on the road for a full month. We are not yet
ready to head home!
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