{"id":420,"date":"2010-09-21T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=420"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:48:00","slug":"day-51-aliens-and-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/21\/day-51-aliens-and-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 51 &#8211; Aliens and bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 20th<\/p>\n<p>We left Lubbock in the morning with the new fan clutch and could not believe how quiet it was &#8211; at first.\u00a0 Actually, it never got very loud at all but seemed to be on all the time.\u00a0 At low highway speeds you can&#8217;t even hear it.\u00a0 When you get up to cruising speed you can hear it but it is not loud enough to bother us.\u00a0 Today was not hot though so we&#8217;ll reserve judgement until we get back to hot country in the next few days.\u00a0 I did manage to find an O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts store and exchange my bad Hayden 2797 for a new one free of charge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_427\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3049.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-427\" title=\"IMG_3049\" src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3049-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3049-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3049-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The source of UFO information<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our first stop of the day was Roswell, New Mexico &#8211; the home of the alien conspiracy.\u00a0 You know, where the US government has successfully hidden the fact that aliens crashed and died there in their flying saucer.\u00a0 It all really sounds suspicious until you realize that the US government probably could not keep something like that a secret for very long ever.\u00a0 We went to the International UFO Museum and Research Center and did a lot of reading about what happened, who saw what , etc.\u00a0 All very interesting and just something that we had to do being in Roswell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3057.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-428\" title=\"IMG_3057\" src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3057-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3057-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_3057-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our next stop was Carlsbad, New Mexico and the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.\u00a0 Both of us have been there before but not for many years.\u00a0 Today we got into town at about 3pm &#8211; too late to tour the caverns but in plenty of time to visit the cave entrance for the evening bat flight.\u00a0 The weather and the lighting were perfect and we watched as thousands of bats left the cave.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will tour the cave and just relax afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/21\/day-51-aliens-and-bats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/21\/day-51-aliens-and-bats\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 20th We left Lubbock in the morning with the new fan clutch and could not believe how quiet it was &#8211; at first.\u00a0 Actually, it never got very loud at all but seemed to be on all the time.\u00a0 At low highway speeds you can&#8217;t even hear it.\u00a0 When you get up to cruising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/21\/day-51-aliens-and-bats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/21\/day-51-aliens-and-bats\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"armand","author_link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/author\/armand\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}