Leaving Roswell

We left Roswell Friday morning after stopping in at the alien museum. It was really interesting. There are a lot of things to see in Roswell but we had an agenda, and we had to end up in flagstaff at the end of the day. The museum held all kinds of information on the alien that landed, and also how the Air force covered it up. The material the ship was made of was a flexible metal looking stuff. You could spend the whole day in there reading all the information on the crash. We bought a few souvenirs and left, after taking a few more pictures of the alien street lights.

We were really surprised at how big that town is. I thought it was just a spot on the map, but it is really big. The architecture in the town is beautiful. A lot of the buildings are brick, the color of adobe and clay. There is a military academy that looks like a castle, and is built from the same bricks. I wish we could have spent more time there, but we had to get moving. This is where our travel story begins.

We took off and it was just trying rain. The wind was blowing, but the clouds were in the sky. Pretty soon, the snow started, just flurries at first, then it got a little heavier. Pretty soon, the roads were filling with snow. As we drove along, the road disappeared, and the snow got thicker. Our car started bouncing in and out of hr snow ruts, and sometimes were got kind of scared we were going to slide right off the road. There was no snow plow on this road at all. At one point, it was just white with snow, and we had to make our own path on the road. You could not seethe road at all. We just wanted to get off that road.

Finally, we came to the end of that road, and got to turn-on to I40 West. The other direction was closed, the snow was coming too fast, and there was still no plows to clear it. We filled up at the station there, and followed the trucks over the road for the next couple hours. The whole time, it never stopped snowing. This went on for the longest time. Drive, snow, drive snow drive snow, We finally drove out of Albuquerque and toward Arizona. We though we were on the way, then traffic stopped.

It Stayed stopped for about an hour cus some people think they know how to drive like speed demons in the snow. I don’t want to bore you all with how long we sat, and slowly rolled. Let me just say this, we left Roswell at 10:30. It should have taken us about 7 something hours to get to Flagstaff. We should have been there around 5 or 6. We got there at 9. Tired, hungry, cranky, but safe and alive.