Cumulative miles driven: 3,693 Leaving Roswell without a hint of seeing a real live alien we headed over the Hondos Pass to Alamogordo which was only a couple of hours drive. The reason for this little side trip was to see the White Sands National Monument which is the world's biggest white silica sand desert measuring 275 square miles. It really was white! The upside of the damp and cold weather we experienced was that we almost had the place to ourselves and ...

Cumulative miles driven: 3,078 The drive from San Antonio in Texas to Roswell, New Mexico was 590 miles of which the first 312 miles were on Interstate 10 (or I-10). Leaving San Antonio on five and six lane highways this gave way to a fairly standard dual carriageway road after around 15 miles of urbanisation, so with the sat nav showing 'next turn' off I-10 in over 290 miles it was time to employ cruise control set at 80mph with the exception of stops for coff...