{"id":255,"date":"2017-08-09T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=255"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:59:16","slug":"summer-2017-vacation-july-27-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/summer-2017-vacation-july-27-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2017 Vacation \u2013 July 27 \u2013 Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria has to work some so we pack up the car and head on out after a quick trip to McDonalds for some tea. I can neither confirm nor deny I might have procured some &#8220;hot cakes&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re headed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/International+UFO+Museum+And+Research+Center\/@33.3964387,-104.5214477,16.33z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x7847d130783a5b8!8m2!3d33.3936944!4d-104.5229334\">International UFO Museum And Research Center<\/a>. Not just the national, but the International research center. Big things must happen there.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived and paid our obligatory $5 to get into the &#8220;research center&#8221; to see what it is all about. There was some interesting stuff inside but it was also pretty hokey. If we had a piece of an spacecraft, an eyeball in a petri dish or something it might be more believable. There sure are a lot of people who think something happen near Roswell though.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t spend much time there. When we were done we went back the way we came into town to eat at a local Thai restaurant there named the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Lemon+Grass\/@33.3932081,-104.538412,14z\/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sthai!3m4!1s0x0:0xc5e08287f3c3b7b!8m2!3d33.3873287!4d-104.5230192\">Lemon Grass&#8221;<\/a>. I have to say it was pretty good! Like a ton of asian restaurants the inside is nothing to write about but the food and service was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Out of Roswell we took one last &#8220;long way&#8221; around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@33.6825187,-105.3798053,1416m\/data=!3m1!1e3\">Capitan Mountain<\/a> to see what is back there. It turns out that it&#8217;s mostly nothing.\u00a0I managed to\u00a0get the drone out and make a short flight video there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IVZxYGH3v4s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it&#8217;s pretty much out in the middle of nowhere. We spent a lot of time in &#8220;nowhere&#8221; on this trip. It was fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010145-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-259 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010145-2-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010145-2-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010145-2-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010145-2-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North of Capitan mountain, New Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010123-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-260 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010123-1-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010123-1-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010123-1-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010123-1-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North of Capitan mountain, New Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I took any other photographs this day. At least I couldn&#8217;t find any. You wouldn&#8217;t think that finding photographs would be that big of a deal but I use 4 cameras and I never remember where I put things.<\/p>\n<p>We went on to our home of the next few days in Ruidoso (actually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@33.3966327,-105.6646595,3a,75y,185.62h,87.31t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfrYr-5UKYBHipv0SE7V04A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\">Alto<\/a>), New Mexico and got settled in there. It is always great to see family again. The home is beautiful. The air is clear, clean and cool.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we share BBQ together as a family. It&#8217;s a \u00a0huge family gathering as it turns out. It&#8217;ll be nice to see each of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria has to work some so we pack up the car and head on out after a quick trip to McDonalds for some tea. I can neither confirm nor deny I might have procured some &#8220;hot cakes&#8221; as well. We&#8217;re headed to the\u00a0International UFO Museum And Research Center. Not just the national, but the International &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/summer-2017-vacation-july-27-day-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer 2017 Vacation \u2013 July 27 \u2013 Day 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-people","category-public","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}