quick one from yesterday

Sorry for the delay. I was exhausted last night & there wasn't much in the way of 3G reception in the part of TX we were going through. Having said that...

So our first inadvertent stop heading out to Roswell was a VERY small town called Hatch, NM (self-proclaimed chili capital of the world). It was a very cute little town with almost every building adorned with large dried chili stocks. I decided to have a chili burrito in order to investigate whether the town lived up to its claims & I must say that it was by far the best burrito I've ever had. It was a chili stuffed with white cheese, breaded & lightly fried & surrounded by refried beans & cheddar cheese in a tortilla. YUM!

Then as we were on a loooong stretch of highway, I realized we were almost out of gas. We started looking for the next available gas station & when my gas light turned on, I searched on my phone & found the nearest one...42 miles out... We found ourselves doing everything we could think of to save gas such as rolling up the windows & turning the air off which was not exactly pleasant in South New Meco. We told my car how awesome & pretty it was & promised it a nice wash if it made it to the gas station, which it did, so now we owe it one. Very very scary experience.



We finally made it to Roswell and had dinner at a neat place called Farley's. There were sci-Fi posters on the walls & scrap metal spaceship sculptures hanging from the ceiling. Some of the town's businesses add "Aliens Welcome" to their tag lines & there are a few Alien themed souvenir shops, but besides that, it's mostly just another South Western town so we decided to move on & start heading towards Texas.



After hours & hours of driving (Adam wasn't tired), I finally got so cranky that we decided to stop for the night in Fort Stockton, TX. We spent a great deal of time looking for a suitable motel but with the help of Yelp & various other internet resources, we finally decided on the Deluxe Inn. It took some time for the guy at the office to wake up & help us but for $40, it was a pretty decent room. A safe, clean place to sleep & a mattress that was not mostly air was a very god deal for that much indeed.


-Ang