28/04/10

We survived the night in Roswell. No abductions, probes, visitations. Very boring. Although G0N did wakeup in the middle of the night, spouted some gibberish, woke up midway through speaking, then told me to ignore him and promptly went back to sleep.

In the morning we went to Denny's for breakfast. They did an all you can eat on pancakes with maple syrup and this sweetened butter that “tastes like a heart attack” as G0N put it. Really nice though.

After breakfast we went out to take a look round town. The visitor's centre no longer exists, as we found out, So we ent straight for the Roswell Museum, looking for some cool alieny stuff. We were disappointed by the fact that it was a serious museum and art gallery. It had a good history of New Mexico with lots of guns and armour etc. It also had a collection of rockets from the 40's as one of the American rocket pioneers worked out of Roswell. The distinct lack of any mention of the UFO crash gave the impression that this museum wanted to leave that part of Roswell's history out of their history books.

After one museum we went straight to another; this one called the UFO Museum and Research Centre. If you want UFO and alien stuff, you can't go wrong with that title. As expected it has the whole history of the Roswell incident with copies of the actual documentation, pictures, models, the lot.

On the whole I really liked Roswell. It was almost a themed town, but still fairly normal. I was expecting the alien theme to be always in your face with every building trying to milk it for all its worth. This expectation was really based upon the touristy parts of places like New Orleans and Savannah, where every shop is a tourist trap. Roswell on the other hand had a bit of the quirky alien theme on the normal buildings, but without it being the soul purpose of the town.

After grabbing some essentials, mainly water, we headed out into the desert. Unlike yesterday, it has been fairly cloudy but still hot and dry. The wind has been really quite strong here, making driving a bit more tiring as the gusts push the van about all the time. It has even created some small dust storms, which make the skies an eerie thick yellow in the sun. We have also passed out of the incredible flat plains and into the hills around Albuquerque and now into rolling hills walled by deep red cliffs.

Just this moment (8:05pm) we have reached the continental divide. Any water that falls to the east of this point drains into the Atlantic and any water that falls to the west drains into the Pacific. Great! Pacific Ocean here we come.

Cube out