Carlsbad/Roswell, NM

Carlsbad was originally christened the town of Eddy on September 15, 1888 and organized as a municipal corporation in 1893; the settlement bore the name of Charles B. Eddy, co-owner of the Eddy-Bissell Livestock Company. With the commercial development of local mineral springs near the flume for medicinal qualities, the town later voted to change its name to Carlsbad after the famous European spa Carlsbad, Bohemia (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic). On March 25, 1918, the growing town surpassed a population of 2,000, allowing then-governor of New Mexico Washington Ellsworth Lindsey to proclaim Carlsbad a city.

Carlsbad Caverns National State Park, these were some of the pueblos above the caves.

The cave was the largest I've ever seen, it is 850 ft.
down by way of carved out steps and walkways and what goes down must come up.

 There were pools and springs throughout the cave, places where the stalactites looked like chandeliers.

 The workout that you get from this cave would challenge even Jillian Michaels but the views are worth it. 

This is some of the mountainside in the national park, most of New Mexico is flat and treeless but there are areas like this where there's mountain's.

 

 Sitting Bull Falls is a series of waterfalls located in a canyon in the Lincoln National Forest southwest of the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The falls are fed by springs located in the canyon above. The water flows through a series of streams and pools until reaching the falls where it drops 150 feet into the canyon below. Most of the water disappears into the gravel or cracks in the rocks and either reappears in springs further down the canyon or joins the Pecos Valley underground water supply.

There are cougars that live in this area and often kill any cows or other wildlife that's in the park after hours, the park closes early for this reason.




The man in this photo was not eaten by a cougar, yet........

Panoramic View of the mountains from the top of the hike.

  Roswell is a city in New Mexico. it is the fifth-largest city in New Mexico. It is a center for irrigated farming, dairying, ranching, manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum production.

 John Chisum had his famous Jingle Bob Ranch about 5 miles (8 km) from the center of Roswell, at South Spring Acres. At the time, it was the largest ranch in the United States.

 If you recognize the name it is because John Wayne played him in the movie "Chisum".
In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of Robert H. Goddard's early rocketry work. His work alongside people like Oppenheimer helped to create the Atomic Bomb and future rocket fuels, his work with rockets is still used today.

The town is also noted for being the home of Pat Garrett, the Sheriff famous for killing Billy the Kid. Pat and Billy were childhood friends but after Pat became the sheriff that all changed.
It is also home to a man named Brazel who not only shot and killed Pat Garret but got off of the conviction claiming it was self defense. Even in that day and time that was unbelievable, meaning someone knew a judge, but that brings us to Roswell's claim to fame 1947 when a rancher named Brazel, the nephew of the earlier rancher saw what he thought was a falling aircraft. 

The story continues from there with intrigue, crime, conspiracy and cover up but I am pleased to inform everyone that aside from the museum exhibits, the only Aliens I saw were of the illegal immigrant variety. Sad that a town with so much history and important people is always foreshadowed by little green men, even the paper covering the story in 1947 highlighted this silly event and at the bottom in very small print was the murder of a women by strangulation that didn't even get a second look, I think as humans we often miss what is really important and only want to see the gossip page, and maybe we aren't alone in this galaxy, it would be naive to think this is all just for us but we are here to take care of this planet and its inhabitants, we are here to find love, understanding and forgiveness and you don't have to leave Earth to do so.

Be kind to one another, until next time.