| an adventurer? Do you have the spirit of a | | | | that you can spend some time in the UFO Museum |
| wanderer? If so, then the hottest new trend in | | | | and Research Center on Main Street. While there you |
| vacation travel, a motorcycle vacation, may be just | | | | can visit with some witnesses to the crash and hear |
| the ticket for you. Whatever countryside you enjoy, | | | | some fascinating stories, and take a side trip out to |
| and whatever bike you ride, a motorcycle vacation | | | | the ranch outside of town where debris was found, |
| promises great fun and entertainment. | | | | and some say small alien bodies were recovered. |
| Imagine a history buff that uses a motorcycle to | | | | When you’ve seen all the UFO sites you feel |
| explore old Civil War battlefields. Wilson’s | | | | like seeing, you can visit the Robert Goddard Museum |
| Creek in southwest Missouri, Pea Ridge in Northwest | | | | next door to the Town’s convention center. |
| Arkansas, and the site of the battle of West Port | | | | Goddard is the father of modern rocket science. He |
| near the Plaza in modern day Kansas City are all | | | | performed many of his experiments in the desert |
| easily accessible by bike. Or, if exploring the west is | | | | near Roswell and the museum is great fun. When |
| more your thing, take a trek out west, starting in | | | | you get done in Roswell, then hop on the bike and |
| Sedalia, the scene of the first recorded cattle drive in | | | | go to Albuquerque near Holloman Air Force Base, and |
| history. Then on your bike trace the other cattle | | | | then on down to White Sands rocket test ground. |
| towns of the old west like Wichita, Parsons and | | | | New Mexico is full of interesting sites. If you head up |
| Dodge City in Kansas. Then keep heading west to | | | | north, be sure to his Santa Fe and appreciate the |
| Colorado the mile high state and visit Estes Park. Go | | | | Native American arts and crafts on display. |
| a little south and visit Colorado Springs, park your | | | | Next stop on your bike tour should be Las Vegas, |
| bike for a day and take a tour of the Air Force | | | | Nevada. The most exciting town on earth is just a |
| Academy and look at the grounds of Cheyenne | | | | hop, skip and bike ride away. Here’s a chance |
| Mountain, home of Norad. | | | | to really gamble, or if you don’t like to bet, |
| Still yearning for more western adventure, then you | | | | then just stop in at one of the casinos to try a very |
| can ride your motorcycle to New Mexico and visit | | | | low priced, delicious buffet. It seems like all the |
| Lincoln County where Billy the Kid and his Regulators | | | | casinos have great buffets and try to outdo each |
| raised a ruckus in the 1880’s. New Mexico has | | | | other. You’ll enjoy them all. Remember too |
| great camping in the mountains near Cloudcroft, so | | | | that this is a town made for entertainment. Try one |
| be sure to take the opportunity to visit and if you | | | | of the shows on the strip, or a comedy club or |
| feel up to it, sleep under the stars, with your trusty | | | | magic act. |
| motorcycle near you, like a cowboy’s horse. | | | | Now, after visiting Las Vegas, it may be time to go |
| While in New Mexico the Apache reservation at | | | | on to the one place that no motorcycle vacation can |
| Riodosa offers a chance to try your luck at slot | | | | be complete without visiting, Sturgis. The town of |
| machines and the wheel of fortune. Then a visit to a | | | | Sturgis, North Dakota is legendary among those who |
| great Mexican restaurant and on to the town of | | | | ride motorcycles, and the town people know how to |
| Roswell, site of the 1947 UFO crash that some | | | | make a biker welcome. Stop in for a root beer and |
| people say made history. When you get to Roswell | | | | buy a T-shirt as a souvenir of your trip. You’ll |
| you can either take your bike to a campground, or | | | | be glad you did, and you’ll remember your |
| park it at a nice reasonably priced motor hotel so | | | | motorcycle vacation for years to come. |