The visit to the UFO Museum and Research Centre was
interesting – the staff friendly and helpful.
Kath thinks the whole thing was a cover up by the US Government for
something scary and secret to do with the possibility of Russia invading!! They
certainly had the locals scared witless with death threats if they kept to the
story of a UFO. Apparently the sightings
continue to this day and who are we to question?
The drive to El Paso was through some great scenery,
starting with low hills, scrub and multi-coloured sedimentary rock, changing to
pine-clad mountains, which form part of the Mescalero Apache reservations. At one time, we emerged to view, on the
horizon, a white line of ground: The missile range called White Sands – It really
is white and is not sand but gypsum (plaster!)
El Paso is the busiest place that we have visited so far and
had Peter clinging to his seat as Kath negotiated the unfamiliar road
systems!!
With El Paso disappearing behind us we headed for Tucson,
Arizona. As we crossed the state line - believe it or not - it started to rain! We are hoping to visit Alan Bean’s
(moonwalker) gallery and also Pima Aerospace Museum and the Davis -Montan Air Force
Base where old US AF aircraft go to die in the desert.
Peter: No-one tells
you when you travel through to a new time-zone. We went from Mountain Time –zone
in Roswell to El Paso on Mountain Time though we only discovered that when we chatted with the locals at the Laundromat.
We assumed El Paso would be on Central Time as it is part of Texas. So, we started
our washing at 5:15 and we ended at 5:15 an hour later. Einstein would be proud
of us...
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