As one might imagine, aliens play a large role in this remote desert community. Lucky for the residents of this outpost, a spaceship crashed nearby back in 1947 because, without this as a tourist draw, I don’t believe there’d be much reason to stop here other than passing through on the way to Carlsbad for those coming from the north.

We stopped for breakfast and ordered pancakes with green alien faces cooked into them, some green eggs and ham (oops, wrong story), and some cross-sections of abducted and dissected pigs.

Checking out the local gift shops while they check us out. You just have to know that we left with more than one of these little guys; we left with three of them.

The UFO Museum & Research Center is the main draw here in Roswell and is worth every penny of the few dollars it will cost you to visit the place.

Here on this Internet terminal, we paid to bring up our website, Alienzoo dot com. The t-shirt I’m wearing is from my last project called TheLinuxStore, which you can guess was focused on all things Linux. Now that I’m working on all things alien, I see lots of similarities with the Linux community.

Oh wow, check out that amazing neon sign, said the driver as we sped by, not really giving a second thought to stopping in. But then we look at the map and consider where we are staying in Alpine, Arizona, and figure this might be our last best chance to get some dinner. Good thing we did, as this place rocks. When you find yourself in Socorro, New Mexico, be sure to stop at this kind of New Mexican Denny’s where green chili on their steak and eggs and a side of guacamole is a great way to enjoy dinner.