UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico

Our drive from Carlsbad this morning was uneventful.  We were at our campground in Roswell and set up by 11 AM.

Model of a landing on a farm in NM

I think I forgot to mention anything about our campground in Carlsbad.  We stayed at White’s City RV park which was part of a motel, souvenir shop, and museum.  The best thing that can be said for this place is its location.  It was right at the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, not 20 miles away like the other campgrounds in the area.  It was also relatively close (about 30-35 miles) to Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  Guadalupe had a campground, but for RVs it was literally the parking lot at the trail head to Guadalupe Peak.  It was angle parking long enough for big rigs and wide enough for slides.  No hook-ups, of course.

At White’s City, the campground was a graveled area with pull-thru sites, all with 50 amp service.  Rigs requiring 30 amp either had to have an adaptor or use an adjacent parking area with all back-in sites.  Gene went in the restroom which he reports as “adequately clean”; I used the laundry which was adequate with 4 washers and dryers, but it was very dusty.  Someone had propped the door open, I assume to allow a breeze, but the wind just blew a lot of the surrounding desert onto every surface in the laundry room.  To be fair, we did notice improvements being made to the campground.

Street light along Main Street

After lunch this afternoon, we just had to go to the International UFO Museum in Roswell.  What fun.  Of course, without any substantial evidence of UFOs, flying saucers, aliens, or a government cover up, we thought they did pretty good putting a museum together.  There were a lot of photographs of people, newspaper clippings, and artists’ depictions of everything remotely associated with extraterrestrial life forms throughout the ages.  The museum curators were actually pretty fair in their displays giving about equal time to those who “believe” and those who don’t.  The truth is out there and the search continues.

We will continue our journey northward tomorrow to Santa Fe.