Oct 12, 2013, 10:02 PM
We made it to Roswell, New Mexico just fine today. We even somehow avoided an accident that had the highway closed. We were riding into Albuquerque and an overhead highway information sign said ACCIDENT highway 40 closed ahead. We both looked at each other and thought oh here we go, we are going to sit in traffic forever now, but NO! I'm not sure if we turned off the highway before the back up or it cleared before we got there or if the sign was a hoax, but we had relatively no traffic all the way here. I will say one thing though, the land is so flat after you turn onto Route 285. Oh my gosh, this road is long, straight, and flat as hell. The campground we are in is a nice place, completely full, but it is on a quiet stretch of road sort of on the outskirts. Well Steve disconnected the car and I checked us in. The woman in the office got on her golf cart to guide Steve to the site. I got in the car, turned the key and got NOTHING!!!!! The battery was completely dead. Steve this morning hooked the car up to the RV by himself. Typically Steve pulls the RV out to a spot where I can pull the car up to the back of the RV then he hooks it all up and we go. This time the site was big enough for him to just hook up the car before we took off and he forgot you have to turn the lights off. The car is put in neutral, the brake off, all the electronics off, the lights off (the RV controls the lights), the ignition in accessory. So for about four hours the car sat with the key half on and the lights on. Not good for the battery. Thank God it's a little car and a stick shift so Steve was able to just give me a push start. All is good!!!!
Oh my gosh, Roswell is such a kitchy little place. There are green aliens at about 25% of the store fronts, I would say at least half the establishments have aliens on their signage or make reference to the fact that aliens are welcome. There was even a motel that had a spaceship in the parking lot. Now I'm sorry, but that's cute. There will be plenty of Spanky photo ops.
We were set up in time for Steve to see the last few minutes of the Gator game. Doesn't it figure it would be a loss. Then don't you know the Charlotte NASCAR race was on right after and we got that station too. Steve is having a big day. It seems to always work out that when the race or a game are on if we get the channel, we aren't home, if we are home, we don't get the channel. So he was in hog heaven. Then I made him take me to DQ. We'd passed several billboards on the highway for a DQ, but we turned off before we could stop. So that got me jonesing. After the race was over I dragged his butt to get ice cream, don't you know we passed one in town not very far from the campground at all. It was kismet!! So now we in for the night, we haven't decided what to do tomorrow but we are going to check out the UFO Museum. Oh and when we went out for ice cream, the streetlight globs are green and have eyes like an alien head. I'm going to like this place.
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