Chaves County

Whenever we have a long drive ahead of us, we look for options to split that drive and do something fun inbetween. Then the roadtrip feels more like a vacation, because a day with any kind of sightseeing or sport gives the day some value. A full day of driving is really dull and we are always unsatisfied with such a day in the evening. We already learned that on our long trip in 2016 and have held on to that habit ever since.
After Route 66 we did not really have an idea what to do in Texas before arriving in Hueco Tanks. One option would have been the Carlsbad Cavern National Park with the biggest dripstone cave in the world, but we weren't able to get there in time, before they closed the cave for the day. So we had to look for something else. I browsed google maps and realized that we could make a tiny detour via New Mexico that would bypass Roswell, the famous place where all Aliens tend to land (or crash), when they are visiting earth. Perfect. We had to go there.
Miles before we reached the city everything was already decorated with Aliens and UFOs. We headed downtown to the UFO Science and Research Museum, a place where all the evidence of the crash landing outside Roswell in the 40ies was collected, analyzed, and displayed. They try to be objective, but when we heard a live lecture of one of the founders of that museum, we realized that they might be a bit biased 😂👽
And the questions from the audience were great. Pretty much every question was rhetorical. People just wanted to get confirmation of their view of things. Surely the government must be hiding something 🕵️
It was a good stop and it split the 550 miles to Hueco Tanks in half. We grabbed a burrito and continued driving south. Back into Texas.Read more