The same day we visited White Sands, we ended up in Roswell, still in New Mexico but edging ever closer to Texas (us, not Roswell)...We headed there purely because we'd heard of it (which was becoming more and more unusual the further we got from 'civilisation'!) because of the whole alien thing, which I think happened in 1947. Anyway, we headed directly for the Motel 6 (as always when there was no hostel!) and then went out to have a look around. Ros...

We left Santa Fe, with me feeling like I'd been kicked in the stomach thanks to whatever had been wrong with me the day before, but eager to get closer to Texas, where it might actually be a bit warmer! In our heads we were aiming to get to a place called Las Cruces and so now realising that not every town cleared out their motels especially for our visits, I phoned ahead...only to discover that Las Cruces was also a bustling metropolis and all their rooms we...

Our chosen destination in New Mexico was Santa Fe, as we'd heard it was more interesting than Albuquerque. We booked into the trusty Motel 6 mid-afternoon and set out to go and have a bit of an explore. It's a really scenic town...all the buildings are made from this stuff called adobe. I had absolutely no idea what it looked like before we arrived there, but it looks like a kind of orangey coloured clay. All the buildings are low level, I don't think...