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Day 6

Denver Museum of Nature and Science! It was awesome! If you are ever anywhere near Denver, say, if you are in the Western Hemisphere, you need to visit this place! We didn’t even have time to see it all, because we got there at 2pm and they close at 5. We are kind of dumb. Also, it’s kind of dumb for anything but an office to close at 5! I think. But it was absolutely fantastic. They had the actual glass thing used in the Miller-Urey experiment!

There were also tons of awesome dioramas. Most showed modern animals in dioramas of their natural habitats, but the Journey Through Time exhibit had incredible dioramas of ecosystems long vanished, like this one from the Devonian, I think. I should have taken notes. Could be Cambrian, but were there belemnites / ammonites in the Cambrian?

And in the gift shop, I bought a cast of a raptor claw! GO TO THIS MUSEUM.

Then we headed south, on our way to New Mexico. On the way, we passed the Focus on the Family Visitor Center!

Fortunately, they were closed.

Day 7

We just drove and took it easy. And watched WALL-E. Frealz. We ended up in Santa Fe, NM.

Day 8

Walked around in downtown Santa Fe. It’s really neat. Everything’s made of adobe! I had an excellent locally made beer at a brewpub:

Which reminds me: I love Mexican food now. At least how it’s made in New Mexico. I srsly cannot get enough.

Then we headed south some more, through the desert, where we saw awesome and powerful storms, the kind you just don’t see in Seattle:

Finally, we arrived in Roswell.

And that is where I am now, writing this up on Day 9. And let me tell you, there is a lot of woo in Roswell. Not just the “aliens crashed here” woo. That’s fine.  That’s what the town’s tourism industry is built on. I’m talking about the kind of woo that puts books called “UFOs and The Death of Marilyn Monroe” written by a guy with a PhD in store front windows. I can’t remember if it was Dawkins or Gould who said not to trust someone who flaunts their degree on the cover of their book. It was probably Dawkins.

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Posted on Saturday, July 12th, 2008 in Category Roadtrip 2008. Please comment, ok?