After our day in Roswell learning all about aliens, it was time to move on to something a bit more real, if every bit as fantastical. 250 million years ago southeastern New Mexico and western Texas were covered by the Delaware sea. Millions of years of uplift later the reef filled with large mineral deposits and fossils turned to the land we now call the Guadalupe Mountains. Groundwater reacting with these minerals formed acids that…
After departing Lincoln, we were going to be passing through Roswell, If you haven’t been you kind of have to go, at least once. But first, breakfast. And when in Roswell we can heartily recommend a stop at Roswell Donuts.
Any place that has kolaches? Count me in. Cream donuts filled to order? You have to be kidding me! How about a breakfast croissant? If they don’t have the one you want they will make it up for you on the spot. My new favorite donut spot. Luckily it is several thousand miles from home or I’d be looking like I was packing a UFO around on my waist.
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We rolled into Lincoln, just down the road from the Smokey Bear Historical Park, not expecting much. We ended up spending the remainder of our day there. Lincoln was famously at the center of the Lincoln County War that took place from 1876-1879. Now, most of the town is frozen in time as the Lincoln Historic Site and may just be the best preserved town in the west.
