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<\/a><\/p>\nOur site was minimally landscaped but with all the essentials necessary for a few days \u201clet up\u201d in our travel.\u00a0 No more interesting than the drive to this stop, it was flat, empty of prominent mountainous protrusions of any sort and planted with a few scraggly trees.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the freeway drive here, you could see mile upon mile across the horizon.<\/p>\n
Offering us a preview of our upcoming October Balloon festival trip, the RV park airspace displayed views of the local hot air balloons similar to those we will see in Albuquerque New Mexico.\u00a0 I took pictures of a few, the outside silence temporarily interrupted by the swoosh sound given off by fuel forced flames and hot air flowing into the center of each balloon, lifting basket, body and balloon high into the sky. I have always been fascinated by multicolored orbs floating overhead.<\/p>\n A few passed within shouting distance of their occupants.\u00a0 I waved.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think for one moment the reason for our memory lapse was being of vintage age and forgetful.\u00a0 Everyone knows green aliens can wipe out your recollection, leaving you in query of events.\u00a0 Alien intervention, that\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking to it!<\/p>\n We passed so many fun and fanciful interpretations of aliens along with a few grey metal flying saucer dotting the downtown streets.<\/p>\n Wandering around town, we strolled into a few of the eclectic tourist-trap shops promoting alien casual ware,<\/p>\n passing hotels prominently displaying those rarely seen in person little green men,<\/p>\n gas stations sporting flying saucers, roadside signs claiming \u201cofficial\u201d UFO stops<\/p>\n and the space ship designed Mickey D\u2019s with a Jetson style galaxy mural painted on the building next door.<\/p>\n As the sun began to warm up the town, we headed for air conditioning and used our Groupon for entrance into the number one tourist destination, located on Main Street downtown, the International UFO Museum and Research Center.\u00a0 Entering, we watched a video and strolled through the compact but well stockpiled museum of things UFO.<\/p>\n Food for thought, the video brought to mind questions from 1947 newspaper exploited claims of people involved being crazies.\u00a0 Answers were provided by people interviewed, most were professionals, well educated and creepily well informed about government secrecy including having read paperwork and memo\u2019s by government officials.\u00a0 I exited the video unsure how I stood on the subject.<\/p>\n Technical machines from 1947 lined a wall, set up to look like a government office.\u00a0 Aging myself again, they had the typewriter and rolling stand my high school supplied to students taking typing class.<\/p>\n There were several walls dedicated to photo\u2019s of UFO sites, spaceships, newspaper articles and \u201cproof\u201d of extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n As one would expect, the museum offered a presentation of life size aliens and a spaceship complete with eerie otherworld sounds and coordinating flashing lights.<\/p>\n Interest drawing to an end, we exited after purchasing a tiny plastic green alien to hang from LilyPad\u2019s front fan, hooked near the copper sun and plastic Chinese \u201cluck\u201d symbol.\u00a0 Our length of time rolling in a motorhome has encouraged our acceptance of the tacky side of interior decorating.<\/p>\n Leaving the downtown area, we passed an alien driving a vintage western wagon, a fitting Texan ending to our Alien experience.<\/p>\n Back to the Lodge and our site, a long walk for KatieBug under a setting sun, dinner and sleep.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One last day, our only plans were to walk through Cahoon Park for a leisurely stroll with KatieBug.<\/p>\n Long stretches of walkways, continuing down several blocks, shaded by dense tree branches and, at the end, a peaceful miniature Japanese Water Garden.<\/p>\n Preparations for the next day included stocking up on groceries, programing both navigators for our morning exit and sleep.<\/p>\n This post is out of date succession because those darn little green aliens messed with our brains.\u00a0 Next post will be from Santa Clara California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John and I both thought long and hard, neither knowing why we had a complete lapse of memory regarding our trip to Roswell New Mexico.\u00a0 Our pug KatieBug, if she had any idea, was keeping quiet.\u00a0 If you saw Men … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n