Day 17 – To Carlsbad

While the others will take a more direct route to Carlsbad, Carmen and I are going to go a little out of the way and take a detour up to Lincoln, New Mexico, home of Billy the Kid.  So we head north on route 54 then turn north on route 70.  Then, we traveled west along route 380, the Billy the Kid Scenic Byway through Lincoln County. 

We stopped in the town of Lincoln and home of the Lincoln County war. 

Here is where Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s jail (above the courthouse). 

Not much is open, since it is the middle of October and way past tourist season, so we did not stay very long.  After walking around town and taking a picture of some of the old buildings, supposedly as they existed in the 1870’s, now tourist shops.

Leaving Lincoln, we are heading to meet up with the others, and will pass through Roswell.  Back on route 380 east we come across a group of Pronghorn Antelope.

Later as we near Roswell, Carmen took this picture of the longhorn bull.

Also, we passed some horses, not sure if they are wild or just out in the field.

Did I say we were going through Roswell, home of the alien crash in 1947?  We, or should I say I, had to stop and of course go into the UFO Museum.

Inside the museum we looked around at the different stuff and had to get a picture with some of my new friends.

After a visit to the UFO Museum, we were leaving and had to get a picture of Carmen with some sort of alien encounter.  Not a believer, she finds this amusing.  We stop for lunch before continuing on our way to Carlsbad.  We still have a little way to go before we get to our campground in Carlsbad and will probably get there in time for dinner.