SOUTHERN NEW MX
1. Las Cruces - City of Crosses El Paso-West RV Park in Anthony is
recommended. Anthony is 26 miles [46 km] south of Las Cruces and the same distance north of El Paso, Texas, providing many options for day trips. Start with Las Cruces and the origin of the three crosses. A visit to the Alameda Depot Historic District and the Mesquite Street Original Town Site, both residential areas, are very close to downtown shopping and worth visiting. Other tourist sites include the State University, Farm and Ranch Museum and Fort Selden, the original home of the U.S. Buffalo Soldiers. It is, however, the historic Mesilla Plaza and Valley that is the major attraction with 40 galleries, 200 artists, and good shopping.
My wife Patti with little green ean and flying saucer!
CENTRAL NEW MEXICO 1. Roswell
Roswell’s Trailer Village RV Park is good and near downtown. Tis small city is associated with UFO’s or Unidentified Flying Objects and is the
‘Alien Capital of the World’. In July 1947, a surveillance balloon from Operation Mongul crashed near Roswell. Te US Army labelled the debris a ‘flying disk’ and later a weather balloon. Rumors quickly circulated about a crashed alien flying saucer, little green men and a government cover-up. Despite federal government denials, the world has become fascinated by UFO’s and extraterrestrials, as “the truth is out there”. By the mid-sixties, the city needed to revitalize the downtown core and boost the local
economy. Many store fronts adopted the UFO theme with even McDonald’s designing their restaurant to look like an oval space ship. Roswell remains a mecca of Ufology with the International UFO Museum and Research Center a major tourist attraction.
2.Very Large Array [VLA]
Te Very Large Array is Very Large Array (downloaded from NRAO webpage)
located 50 miles [80 km] west of Socorro. It is home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory [NRAO], which are 27 large radio telescopes that listen for life deep in space. If that sounds like a science fiction movie, it is called ‘Contact’ starring
Jodie Foster and Mathew McConaughey.
2. Carlsbad Caverns In southeast New Mexico, the Carlsbad
Caverns are found in the porous limestone reef of the Guadaalupe Mountains and Chihuahuan Desert. Te caverns include Lechuguilla Cave, the deepest limestone cave in the nation as well as the largest single underground chamber titled ‘Te Big Room’. Te Big Room ceiling is 25 stories high and the floor is 14 football fields in length. Formed over four million years, the caves are a wonderland of stalactites and stalagmite, with a unique white colour. One of the more famous shapes created by water and calcite from the limestone is the Klansman.
3. El Paso, Texas and Mexico Since Texas means ‘friendly,’ it is worth
a visit. El Paso or ‘Pass of the North’ is a US border city, part of the Old West and once called ‘Te Six Shooter Capital’. It is now famous for South El Paso Street and the Hotel Camino Real. Across the US border in Juarez, Mexico and the beautiful Our Lady of Guadalupe Church/Mission. For a different view of the area, take the Wyler Aerial Tramway to the top of Ranger Peak. No visit to El Paso would be complete without a visit to Rosa’s Cantina, made famous by Marty Robbin’s song, ‘El Paso’. Tere’s
lots to see in New Mexico.
Wyler Aerial Tram in El Paso, Texas [Picture from El Paso Tourism website]
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Other worthwhile sites include Chaco Canyon, Taos Pueblo, Lincoln and Fort Sumner [Billy the Kid], Silver City, the Sky City [Acoma], White Sands National Monument, and that other Las Vegas. Let New Mexico be new in your travel plans. You will be enchanted! f
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