Monday December 27th

Alien hunting today.

Rode to Roswell New Mexico today to revisit the scene of the 1947 landing of the Extra Terrestrials that were spirited away to the top secret military installation, Area 51 near Las Vegas.

Roswell reminds me of Hershey, Pennsylvania; a city that embraces it uniqueness.  Just like Hershey, where everything references chocolate, in Roswell, everything references UFO's.  Hershey's street lamp posts look like Chocolate Kisses and in Roswell they look like aliens, which were sporting Santa hats for the holiday

Roswell also has, like most of the south-west, a strong Mexican influence.  This results in some TRUE Mexican restaurants.  We were fortunate to pick Cecilio's.  Like most places here, complimentary salsa and chips are served.  I got the sampler platter and Judy got the Steak Tampaquena.  The sampler came with a taco, enchilada and chille relleno all served with a green chille sauce.  All were excellent choices and more than we could finish.  Take out containers were in order.  Click on any of the highlighted items and you will learn about them.

A walk along Main Street is a tourist and conspiracy theorist's delight.  There is the UFO Museum, which is surrounded by UFO related shops selling shirts, hats, mugs and information.  Everywhere you look you will see another version of what they claim landed here more than 60 years ago.  An event that is celebrated each 4th of July weekend with the annual Roswell UFO Festival.  This has to be Mecca for all the Trekkie's and space junkies out there.

Needless to say, but I'll say it anyway...A trip to Roswell is an Out of this World experience!