Travis & Tara's Trip
Through Southern Arizona & New Mexico
March 16 - 25, 2001
Date: Monday, March 19, 2001
Route: Whites City, NM - Roswell, NM - Alamagordo, NM
Approximate mileage: 166 + side trips
Monday we got up and quickly fled to Carlsbad Caverns.
We saw these cute, happy little kids. Awwww.
The way in was steep.
Here are some thingies. Like most caves, pictures don't turn out real well.
It was worth the price of admission, and we had a good time.
It was about lunch time when we left, and we decided to wait until we got
to Carlsbad to eat. Unfortunately, we at at some horrid hometown-buffet like
place.
BARFORAMA! Not at all like California's Carlsbad, with hundreds of good restaurants.
We did see a grocery store Fry's - owned by the same family that has the
Electronics.
I think the place we ate at was called Fry's also, but the grocery store
attendant assured me it was no relation to the Grocery / Electronics Frys.
We made it to Roswell, where they've capitalized on the whole UFO phenomenon.
Even the streetlights are made up like "Little Gray Men"
THE UFO MUSEUM was free, and featured all sorts of interesting UFO-like exhibits,
including speculation on the Roswell Incident, homemade UFOs, Crop Circles,
and more.
We bought Tara's mom a UFO kite, and Tara a new driver's license (which has
been accepted as identification at Toys R Us, and has stumped some waitresses).
We then drove to Alamogordo, but only because there wasn't any other place
along the way to stop. (We had learned about hotels that looked too cheap.)
We stayed at a Holiday
Inn Express, and ate dinner at a local mexican restaurant which was okay,
but not very interesting. Tara speculates that there is one road through
Alamogordo, and everything is within a block of it.
