A night in Las Vegas

After visiting the UFO Research Center in Roswell we left the city not knowing what to think about the so called Roswell Incident. Fact is that in the night of July 4th in 1947 something had crashed in the desert near Corona, NM. Corona is by the way more then 100 km (to the NW) away from Roswell. Fact also seems to be that the army tried to cover something up. Personally I do have my doubts if that was an UFO crash in the desert. The eye-witness reports differ too much from each other for my taste. ...but you never know... My advise: always keep an eye in the sky!

We drove North through the deserts of New Mexico and saw only 7 cars in the last 65 km before we reached Fort Sumner where we payed a visit to the grave of Billy the Kid and the sheriff who shot him. On US 84 we headed further North to Santa Rosa and Las Vegas. Around Santa Rosa the scenery changed: evergreen trees (junipers and pine trees), rocks and hills appeared in the prairie.

We finally arrived in the charming little town of Las Vegas. Since the grass is green in other places as well, the Spanish settlers called other places then the famous one in Nevada “Las Vegas” (the meadows) as well. Not much gambling and shows are going on here. So we organized our own show, stayed the night in our nice Super 8 motel room and watched the last episode of Desperate Housewives. What a strange show was that...