Roswell

Worth visiting…but only once.

Everyone was very nice, and the town seemed to have a sense of humor… The walmart even had aliens in the windows.

I was disappointed by the museum, though.

the streetlamps have alien eyes. cheesy. it was january when we went, so they also had santa hats. that pretty well sums up the town, imho.

we jumped off of the bus with our packs on our backs and started walking. the town is basically one main drag from start to finish, with a major road that intersects to what seems to be ghetto. we got a on bus, my friends dutch and jessica, and rode until we were in a more central area, checked out the museum which was mildly disappointing and then ate at the place facing the corner of the block the museum was on. eventually we made our way to the local hastings, where a kid who worked there said his girlfriend had already alerted him to our presence(probably the only back pack kids traveling through remote desert towns that week). he got us a ride back to his apartment where we found human feces on the ground, then he gave me illegal imported russian cigarettes, the filters of which were just cardboard tubes which took up 3/4ths the length of the actual smoke. the 1/4th length of tobacco left was of course like smoking seven filterless camels at once.

he then showed us his coyote tail, swords, and gave us all muscle relaxants. the kid and i walked to the grocery store, and i kept on getting these strange burrs that would poke through my shoes. we bought forties, chugged them, then we got a ride to the greyhound ate our pills and floated to texas where some asshole stole my cell phone.

It was kitschy but fun, I had a good time. It was funny how there are two opposing factions there, the believers, and the anti-alien league that has signs up with alien faces with big red lines through them. : ) I was coming up from Carlsbad caverns and stopped in. The family that runs the crash down dinner were really sweet and had lots of cute green crap for sale. It was fun.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to see it, but if you’re in the area already or live nearby (as I do) it’s worth a stop. The museum is pretty hokey; the whole town is a little hokey, but it’s fun for taking pictures and eating UFO hamburgers and buying alien souvenirs.

If you’re in the area and into aliens, you might also check out the Sierra Blanca Brewery in Carrizozo. They brew the Roswell Alien Amber beer there. The beer is pretty good, and the labels are definitely keepers. You don’t have to go to the brewery to buy the beer, though.

All in all, a fun-cheesy little day trip or stop, but don’t expect it to require a whole vacation.

I went to Roswell for work. We were doing a concert of the Foo Fighters at hanger 85. The one that the alien bodies (supposedly) were stored after the (supposed) spaceship crashed in 1948. I spent a week there and the locals are all really nice, but it’s too darn hot!

go to the ufo museum…..it’s fun, interesting and you can get cool alien pins.

I wasn’t impressed. I just happened upon it while driving through New Mexico. Seemed like a tourist trap to me.

Somewhat hokey, but overall a strange and cool place to visit.