Roswell, New Mexico
This trip is broken into two parts for me. There is traveling and then everything else. One is by night and the other is typically at day but certainly not limited to such. It is a strange sensation to go to sleep in one city, state, and time zone and then to wake up and find that all of that has been replaced with something new all while you were sound asleep.
Today the group needed some down time so we headed 20+/- minutes out of Roswell (after UFO Museum time and interviewing a man from Alien Resistance) to Bottomless Lake State Park. It was gorgeous. So very flat but then there was a plateau. This was the first time we had seen the lay of America outside of cities. It was a very nice mental relief. Until today we had not been able to look at nature and its real beauty very much, everything we have experienced has been clouded by the cities. The ride out showed a strange combination between the uninterrupted roll of the land and hints of civilization. With those hints it removed the idea that we were in the wild. Does wild even exist any longer in America? I relate wild to being able to frontier something. However, the places we went today were only new to us not an entire generation like once before. I liked it though. While there were homes, they were not huge and ostentatious ones that I have become accustomed to in Tennessee. The building materials used were ones that were gathered with ease and necessity more so than for appearance. This may not have been wild anymore but it still held the captivating beauty that one can only find when they are surrounded by open land.
Once we got to the lake it was cool. We had been driving through dry land and then we found this little oasis. It seemed completely wonderful. But even it had been affected by people. This extra large pond had paddle boats available to rent by the hour. Definitely not natural or wild. I still felt a sense of serenity come over me though, which was huge relief.
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