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.

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White Sands Missile Range, NM

White Sands Missile Range, NM



Our Snow Scraper

The final resting place of our snow scraper.