Our original plan was to head to El Paso after White Sands, but the beauty of an RV road trip is that you can make changes on the fly!

Instead of El Paso, we decided to drive East to Roswell, New Mexico and look for signs of alien life.

We arrived late to a cute RV park and in the morning discovered that Roswell looks a lot like southeast Idaho where we grew up…. hayfields and farms and a brick-building lined downtown area.

Our sole stop in Roswell was the International UFO Museum and Research Center.

It was pretty interesting to read all of the accounts from people in Roswell that claim an alien spacecraft crashed there in 1947. No proof of course… but lots of witnesses make you wonder! The town had a strange vibe, I have to admit… kind of a heaviness and dreary, surreal feel to it. We were ready to leave when it was time!

Kate took it pretty seriously and running up to us and claiming she found a “real alien” and would drag us to see it. She said she wants to go to space and see aliens someday!