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The Big Journey of 1996 by Chris Minnick
Day 5: Saturday, April 20
This morning we went to Denny's, which seemed much larger on the inside than it
appeared from the outside. Everyone looks like an alien here, or like they see aliens
all the time. Nice town, though. After Denny's we went to Wal Mart to get more film, then I got a haircut at a
place called "No Appointment" (only 7 bucks!). At one o'clock the International UFO Museum and Research Center opens. The place
is very strange. Extremely busy, though. I interviewed a volunteer there and you can read all about it. This afternoon we drove on a very
frightening two lane highway through the middle of New Mexico. Apparently this road is called the "Journada del Muerto," which Margaret tells me means "Journey of Death." We saw very few other
cars for a very long time. We drove by the White Sands Missle Range, which is surrounded
by a fence with Warning and No Trespassing signs every 500 feet. We also came very
close to the Trinity Site, which is where the first nuclear bomb test took place. Realizing that we were in the middle of the desert and that we still had a snow
scraper on the floor of the front passenger seat, we stopped close to the Trinity
Site and planted the snow scraper near a cactus. We arrived in Albuquerque at around 6:30, where we called up our New Mexico connection,
who met us at a Stuckey's and led us to a scary very remote (we're talking dirt roads
here) suburb of Albuquerque where he lives. We watched tapes of X-Files and ate
Nachos. |
White Sands Missile Range, NM
The final resting place of our snow scraper. |