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04:13:2005 Entry: "Ann : Roswell"

Roswell

I have never travelled cross country in March before. Or April, for that matter. I have travelled in February, for Stan's dad's funeral. I have travelled in May through November. But the cold snowy winter and early spring months (with the exception of the above-mentioned emergency) are basically off-limits for travel. Just as well, because Stan can hardly ever find a time slot open there anyway. Those are the family-ing months, especially December. Those are the months when all the vacation hogs at Stan's job have to have time off to be with their family who lives far, far away, i.e., a whole 90 miles. There are people who basically live their whole lives no further than a 100 mile radius from where they were born. Their idea of a vacation out of Wisconsin is taking a package deal to Vegas. It's all about the bling, artificial, protected from the real environment. There are no national parks or blue roads. They never see the country. I cannot fathom living their lives.

The day before we leave will be very snowy. Just yesterday I checked my desktop weather gadget, "Meteorologist." I have it set on three cities, Madison, Fort Collins, and Roswell...it was 26 degrees here and it felt like 21. It was in the low 40s in Fort Collins. And in Roswell it was 65 degres. And it felt like 65 degres. I hate our local groundhog...he lied to us bigtime.

In my subdreams, it's mostly about travelling around Fort Collins. Fort Collins is the base of operations. Sometimes I travel around the city, other times outside of the city. Inside the middle of the city, around real-life Midtown and Oldtown...the public library, old Laurel School and the Rainbow restaurant, on the east side, there is a strange area in my dreams. It is sunken, prone to flooding. The houses are old and unkept, small dark wood cabin-like structures, some are nothing more than strip-down modern mid century 2 bedroom ranches. Some are on stilts like in the south. I've had a history of house-on-stilts dreams from a young age, yet the south is one part of the country I have never seen in person. It's very hard to find your way out of this area once you are in it.

Sometimes in the dream we travel east out of Fort Collins. It is barren and open like it is in real life, but spookier. Sometimes we're travelling to catch a plane or train. Other times it becomes more mountainous, and we are looking for a motel. The location seems familiar, maybe like somewhere in Wisconsin, but less green, more browns.

Sometimes in the dream we travel southeast out of Fort Collins. It is west, raining. The ground can barely hold water. We're travelling toward an airport.

Sometimes in the dream we travel south out of Fort Collins, but we always head west. It is always warm and sunny and it is the late afternoon. The roads wind around in the country, and the roads wind around on overpasses closer to the city, even though Fort Collins IRL essentially has no overpasses. In the city there are drive-in restaurants and we get food like ice cream. The whole atmosphere is like a carnival minus any macabre aspect. In the mountains we feel like we're flying. Sometimes this dream gets intertwined with the dream I mentioned the other day, the snowy mountain dream. Sometimes we go as far as Utah, and we're trying to get back home.

One dream I remember we were travelling from New Mexico to Arizona on I-40 and it felt like we were flying through the red rock gateway between the two states. It was a wonderful feeling.

I don't think I've ever had a dream or subdream where we travel south from Fort Collins, and then east, so maybe this trip will open up some new dreams. The eastern plains of Colorado are scary to me. In 2003 we didn't go to Fort Collins, just Montrose, so when we got to Colorado, we dropped down to Sterling and then headed south on some blue highway across the eastern plains. There was nothing upon nothing. But then we headed to Colorado Springs on our way west, so I don't know what the southern eastern plains of Colorado are like, let alone the eastern plains of New Mexico.

Sometimes I wonder why we never went to Roswell sooner. I guess I'm not big on the whole UFO culture phenomenon. It's sort of an ironic thing to me, and am much more looking forward to seeing Carlsbad Caverns, Living Desert and getting horse crippler cactuses at the lady's ranch. But we'll probably take in some tacky UFO tourist things while we're there. Because we'll have no place to keep them while we're sightseeing and cactus digging, we're boarding the dogs. I will miss them terribly.

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I will miss the dogs too.

Posted by Stan @ 03:11:2005:08:48 PM CST

By Ann @ 19:46 AM CST:04:13:05 ..::Link::..

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