Hangar 84
Note: Photo captions are time and place of WiFi connectivity.

May 24th, Part One
Had a personalized tour of Hangar 84 and the entire AAR complex today - very cool. Then spent 2 1/2 hours in Julie’s office at the UFO Museum talking about all kinds of stuff. Fascinating lady. Seeing her for coffee again in the morning before I trundle off to do some more Atlas seeking.

I’m going to stop by a Best Buy if I can find one and buy a bigger chip for the camera.  Video is definitely on my mind.  In fact, other than the night vision (which I hope to get a chance to use) I don’t imagine I’ll take a video camera with me anymore - too cumbersome.  And it takes up space.

And yes, I should be in Santa Fe by Friday where I’ll spend a couple of days - maybe the whole weekend.  It’s Memorial Day weekend here, so motels might be at a premium.  Back through northern Arizona after that (Grand Canyon and all), then a couple of days doing the loop from Vegas to Rachel to Tonoapah and back to Vegas before coming home.

Cloudy here in New Mexico which made it cooler - only 90 degrees today.  Believe it or not, it actually did seem cooler!

Taking mostly back roads and staying away from the big cities.  The whole concept of ‘ghost town’ is relative.  I’ve been to a couple of bona fide western ghost towns, but I’ve also driven through towns and villages that have been deserted for only 10 years or less.  People just up and left.  In one case I went through a broken door into a small building (had a fading ‘Cafe’ sign hanging out front) to find canned goods still on the shelf (?!)  Truly weird.  In that particular instance I’m told the town died when the U.S government shut down a military base which was the town’s lifeblood.  The circus left town and the people followed.

Reporting, for the last time, from near Hangar 84 in Roswell, New Mexico