RV Winter Rambling 2006-07

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Roswell, New Mexico’s claim to fame is the supposed crash-landing of an alien spaceship in 1947. The site of the ‘crash’ is actually about 50 miles northwest of the town, but the young man that discovered the strange materials and the crash site reported his discovery back in Roswell.

While we explored the town and the hokey ‘UFO Museum’, we couldn’t help but think of our brother-in-law, Gaby (now deceased) who was a UFO enthusiast and read everything he could get his hands on about the subject. It is such a shame that he never had the chance of visiting Roswell.

Roswell was a surprise to us – it’s a lovely agricultural town with a population of 50,000 and a stately military academy in the core. Several hundred years ago, the Spanish discovered that there was lots of water in the land – surprising because the Chihuahuan Desert is just south. The businesses have taken advantage of the ‘Alien’ encounter and you can see little green men in just about every shop window. Even Walmart has decorated with pictures of spaceships and extraterrestrials.

With an afternoon looming ahead of us, what else would we do but tour the town and its surroundings by Geocaching.

posted by O'Leary @ 9:21 PM