Campsite in New Mexico> Roswell, NM> Carlsbad Caverns, NM> Campsite in Abilene, TX
We woke up slowly knowing that our driving for the day was not too bad and we really needed a little bit of relaxing the pace. So we packed up the tent had some breakfast and swam at the pool of our campsite. After a couple hours relaxing and doing our best to cool off we headed to the alien capital of the United States… Roswell, New Mexico.
We really had no idea what to expect when we arrived 2 hours later, but we got there and began to explore. Apparently we missed the big annual alien convention by one week, but it didn’t matter to us. We looked around a few stores, had a pretty good burger at a local bar and grill, enjoyed an alien wheat beer and checked out the Roswell Alien museum and research center.
The museum was interesting, a bunch of stories and all of the evidence relating to the incident in Roswell. To sum up the incident as the museum told it: A farmer went to check out a crash far out on his farm and couldn’t identify the material he found, he also found some “bodies” which were not human and not animals. Now at first glance you just think this man is nuts but what gets interesting is that the next day neither the farmer or anyone in town could get to the crash site because there was a huge amount of government agents blocking off the area. A day or two later after claiming that he found an alien spacecraft and alien bodies the government said that it was a crashed weather balloon and there are many testimonials saying that the government agents really threatened anyone who wanted to talk about what they saw. After seeing hundreds of the documents it does start to get a little interesting but with no pictures and no real proof we both agreed that although something may have happened we don’t believe it was aliens.
Once out of Roswell we set our GPS for Carlsbad Caverns National Park about an hour and a half away. When we got there around 630 we found out that you couldn’t enter the caverns after 4pm. However, there was a bat flight with hundreds of thousands of bats leaving the caves at 7:45. So we stuck around and watched the bat flight. It was truly amazing and made the trip to Carlsbad worth it even though we didn’t see the caverns. The bats came out of this cave at rapid speeds and as the left the cave they created almost this tornado of bats as the flew out into the distance. The flight lasted at least 30mins so you can imagine at hundreds of bats every few seconds what it looked like. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take any pictures so if you want to see it you’re just going to have to go yourself. Well finally with the sun setting we decided it was time to look for campsites.
We realized that unlike the more wooded areas of the country that we had been to before this area seemed to seriously lack in anywhere we could pitch a tent. So we decided to suck it up, get some coffee and drive 4 hours into Texas and arrived in Abilene, Texas. After a very long hot day we crashed hard in the tent. But we slept with smiles on our faces as we knew the next two days would be spent at John’s Uncle Brian’s house outside of Dallas Texas, now only a few hours away.
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