The journey from Foss was … uneventful. And here again, I’m going to visualize that for you with our stock Oklahoma, North Texas, NE New Mexico, (and soon to be Southern Wyoming) photo:
On the way to Carlsbad we were able to pickup another state welcome sign, and here we’re actually parked on the historic Route 66.
We skipped the “Welcome to New Mexico” sign because it was in a really nasty part of town which, unfortunately, was the story for most of the towns in New Mexico. This is a state with severe economic depression compounded by Covid and civil unrest and, except for a very few shining stars like Santa Fe, it really shows in the number of closed businesses and run down and dilapidated buildings.
Being consummate geeks, we were really looking forward to spending some time exploring the Roswell tourist traps but again, Covids, and most were not open. So we donned our foil hats and made the best of it!
although the UFO museum was closed…
we found a t-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark alien face in this store:
what more could we ask?
443 miles today, total: 1,970.
