{"id":640,"date":"2012-06-20T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T01:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-06-24T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T01:52:51","slug":"adobe-art-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/06\/adobe-art-and-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe, Art and Aliens&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Traveling through New Mexico<\/p>\n<p>The road from Dallas took us west over some of the most deserted land I&#8217;ve seen for a while. \u00a0The distances are so huge that you have to be reasonably careful about planning your route &#8211; a &#8220;short&#8221; detour here to see something half cool can add several hundred miles to the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally (honest guv&#8217;nor), our route took us through Roswell, home of the first of the mainstream UFO \/ government cover up incidents back in the 1940s. \u00a0I kind of wanted to see this anyway, expecting a town full of slightly bad taste alien paraphernalia. \u00a0Alas, it was all actually pretty restrained, with only the occasional alien lamp-post and Coke machine (sorry Tekla) to remind us what we were here for. \u00a0There&#8217;s an enthusiastic museum which certainly leaves the impression that something was covered up, though who knows what. \u00a0The truth is out there&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop Santa Fe, a very beautiful town consisting almost entirely of unpainted, earth toned adobe houses that reminded me a little of&#8230;.well, Mexico. \u00a0Funny that. \u00a0It&#8217;s also home to the Georgia O&#8217;Keefe museum (she painted almost entirely in New Mexico in her later life), which gave us a much needed burst of culture before we headed off for some New Mexican cuisine &#8211; gotta love staying in a town where tacos are actually an authentic part of the cuisine and culture!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-640 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040733.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040733-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Out in the desert with just the nodding donkeys for company\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-645\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-645'>\n\t\t\t\tOut in the desert with just the nodding donkeys for company\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040738.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040738-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Middle of nowhere!!\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-641\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-641'>\n\t\t\t\tMiddle of nowhere!!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040751.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040751-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Alien encounter. 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But which one is the alien?!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040749.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040749-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lamp posts in Roswell, unfortunately about the most spooky thing there!\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-643\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-643'>\n\t\t\t\tLamp posts in Roswell, unfortunately about the most spooky thing there!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040745.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/P2040745-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Coke has achieved interplanetary popularity - who knew?\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-642\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-642'>\n\t\t\t\tCoke has achieved interplanetary popularity &#8211; who knew?\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Traveling through New Mexico The road from Dallas took us west over some of the most deserted land I&#8217;ve seen for a while. \u00a0The distances are so huge that you have to be reasonably careful about planning your route &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/06\/adobe-art-and-aliens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}