About 75 miles west of San Antonio, Texas on I-10, civilization as we know it comes to an end. There are no Rest Areas like you see in Florida or other eastern states, only Picnic Parks with no facilities or Parking Areas again with no facilities. The road does have numerous various animal carcasses in varying degrees of decomposition and a speed limit of 80 mph. We stayed right at 75 mph hoping to get a few extra miles out of our $4.55 per gallon gas and gradually watched the temperature rise to 111 by the time we reached Roswell.
The summer sunset and time change were both in our favor, so we were able to get out and about after checking in to the hotel even though it was 6 pm in San Antonio, it was only 4 pm here. We walked along Main Street to see that Roswell takes the UFO story of 1947 very seriously. Just about every shop in this historic area has aliens or flying saucers as part of its decor.
Even the McDonalds modeled its location after the UFO theme.
Alien faces on the street lights was an interesting touch.
Now it was time for dinner and we found a Mexican Restaurant with patio seating. After all, it had cooled off to 106 degrees and the humidity was only 7%. As you can imagine, we had the entire patio to ourselves.
No trip to Roswell is complete without a visit to the International UFO Museum on Main Street.
After you get passed all the cartoon characterizations of aliens and flying saucers, they present some compelling facts concerning the 1947 crash site coverup by the US Military. This combined with the recent admission by the military of actual sightings and renewed research, there is a lot to consider, including a credible report that there was another crashed “vehicle” containing 16 bodies taken away about 30 years ago and never seen or heard of again.
There is also credible proof of sightings around the globe especially a remote area of western Australia.
My advice………look to the skies and watch.
This was a good looking building that Jim insisted upon putting in blog. It was downtown Roswell and obviously does not go along with the Alien theme
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