Go Topless New Mexico 2026 video by 4 Corners 4x4 Week.
This looks like a lot of fun. In order for me to do this with my Jeep, I would need a trailer to haul it up to Farmington, which is 100 miles north.
Summary:
We are less than 1 week away from the Go Topless Event. What to expect when you come to Farmington for the 2026 Go Topless Day New Mexico Event.
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| Above, at the Ross Family ranch set from True Grit (1969). |
This morning, I headed out of Colorado for New Mexico.
Before leaving, I was going to empty the motorhome's holding tanks, but the cap to the outlet (or is it inlet?) was stuck tight. So I decided to skip it and find an RV dump station along the way.
I got on the road at about 7:00 this morning. The drive was a pleasant one with a mix of pine trees and aspens, which were in their fall colors.
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| Above, the house used as the Ross Family home in True Grit. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The price for gasoline in Colorado was over $4.04/gallon, so I decided to get gasoline in Farmington, New Mexico for $3.99. The drive was mostly downhill and I was able to coast the motorhome. I had over a quarter tank of gas starting out of Ridgway. When I reached Farmington, I had just under a quarter tank.
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| Above, the Welcome To Colorado sign on Highway 140. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
I took the longer, but more scenic Highway 140 out of Colorado to Farmington. I tried to go to the Fort Lewis Country Store, but I couldn't locate it and there were no cars around to indicate where it was. So I gave up.
Before leaving Colorado, as I was entering Durango, I saw the 8:30 Durango train heading out of town.
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| Above, at Alpen Rose RV Park in Durango. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
I decided to use the dump station at Alpen Rose RV Park in Durango. I've stayed there twice. So I paid their fee and emptied the holding tanks. Since the nighttime temperatures are dropping, it is best to keep the tanks empty.
I got home at 1:25. Before reaching home, I stopped at Big Ass Burger in Thoreau to get a cheeseburger and their famous curly fries.
All in all, it was a good trip.
One can always predict with high certainty the knee-jerk reactions of liberals/Leftists to every shooting tragedy (as long as the full story follows their narratives) with their gun-grabbing calls.
Naturally, the shooting yesterday in Farmington, New Mexico was horrendous. But as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we can always count on Democrats to play politics with tragedies such as this.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham posted this on Twitter last evening:
NO ONE should have to worry about being gunned down in their own neighborhood.
As I did in the last session, I will again pursue an assault weapons ban, age restrictions and other gun legislation that makes our state a safer place to live.
As usual, blame the gun, not the deranged criminal. This is rich since she refuses to make New Mexico safer by not sending the National Guard to the southern border.
A shooting in New Mexico yesterday made national news.
It took place in the city of Farmington, New Mexico. It is a few miles from the Colorado border and I have driven through it several times while en route to Durango and Ouray, Colorado. It is about 123 miles north of Jamestown.
Reports stated that the shooter, killed by police, was 18 years old.
According to KRQE:
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – At least four people are dead, including the suspect, and several others are injured following a shooting in Farmington Monday morning. Police said the suspect was shot and killed by officers on the scene.
The shooting unfolded around 10:57 a.m. along N. Dustin near Ute Street. Farmington Police claimed an 18-year-old man was “actively firing” on people in the neighborhood. The suspect has yet to be identified but is thought to be the only suspect involved.
Police say at least three people were killed by the suspect before officers killed him. An officer from Farmington Police and another from State Police were among six wounded in the shooting, according to the department. Police have yet to identify any of the victims or their ages.
Of course, the Democrats will waste no time to politicize the shooting.
To read more, go here.
Almost a year after the Roswell UFO Incident, another purported UFO crash took place near Aztec, New Mexico.
This one allegedly occurred on or about March 25, 1948 on a mesa near the town. Some say this incident was a hoax, while others aren't so sure of that. The crashed UFO was allegedly 100 feet in diameter and contained 16 alien bodies.
From the Albuquerque Journal:
Aztec, New Mexico, with a population of about 6,500, is a tidy community a few miles east of Farmington.
The nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument stands monumentally still. The Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village features such century-ago items as a historic barbershop, antique telephone equipment, various fossils and minerals.
Something else, something much darker, draws tourists to here.
On the night of March 25, 1948, a flying saucer allegedly crash-landed on a lonely mesa in Hart Canyon, four miles distant. There’s a plaque where it put down.
Folks as far away as those who lived in Cedar Hill, 10 miles northeast of Aztec, were said to have heard the crash. But that fact was never verified.
As the above states, there is a plaque at the location of the crash. There is a website with a photo of the crash site and the plaque's text. To access it, go here.
Back in 2018, I attended the annual Gallup UFO Film Festival and the festival's founder, Chuck Wade, discussed the Aztec incident. To see my blog post on this, go here.
If anyone hasn't heard of the Aztec UFO crash, here's an except from a 1998 Los Angeles Times article:
Turns out that, compared to Aztec, Roswell was small potatoes. Whereas that mother of all crash cover-ups “produced” only a couple of alien bodies, this one involved 16. Aside from that difference, the tale follows the classic pattern of UFO-conspiracy folklore: A disc-shaped craft was recovered intact; security was ratcheted to tourniquet level; debris and corpses were removed by the military and all evidence of the crash eradicated; the bodies were autopsied; a top-secret program was created to study and duplicate the craft’s technology. Sound familiar?
To read the full Albuquerque Journal article, go here.
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| Above, Mark Ronchetti making a purchase at the Flying J. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Following out usual Saturday morning coffee/breakfast at Denny's in the Jamestown Flying J, I was heading over to the post office to check my mailbox when I ran into GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Ronchetti.
He was in line with his daughter at the checkout counter.
I walked up to him and said, "I know you! I have one of your signs in my front yard!" He gave me a big grin and thanked me. I told him, "Good luck!" and shook his hand before I was headed to the post office.
He had concluded a campaign event in Grants a little earlier this morning.
UPDATE (10/30/22):
After leaving the Flying J, Ronchetti attended campaign events in Gallup and Farmington. Those events were well-attended, judging from the photos of them posted on Twitter. Those events and the one earlier in Grants were part of his #RonchettiOnTheRoad RV Tour.
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| Above, the Durango train departing Durango Station last April. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
After spending some time yesterday discussing where to go when my ex-roommate Jessica comes for a visit this summer, we decided to go to Durango to ride the train and, from there, go to Navajo Lake State Park near Farmington, New Mexico for some jet skiing or boating.
I have never been to Navajo Lake, so I am looking forward to checking it out. It is along the way home (roughly) from Durango, so it works out great. Camping for RVs is $14/night, with hook-ups. Nice and cheap!
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| Above, Navajo Lake Marina. Navajo Lake State Park photo. |
We should be able to do both and get home on one tankful of gasoline.
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| Above, the Tsaya Trading Post looks like it had been there a while. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
This evening, I made it home to Jamestown, New Mexico.
It was a smooth ride until I reached Farmington, New Mexico. The traffic there was heavy. Plus, the lack of signage had me "mighty bewildered" (as Daniel Boone used to say) and I had to stop and use Google Maps to get me to the right road and out of town. I think I will avoid this route (Hwy. 550) in the future.
The day started in Durango after packing up everything when I went to the Lone Spur Cafe in town. As luck would have it (again), I finished breakfast just in time to see and video (below) the Durango train depart Durango Station.
After that, since I had a couple of hours to kill before the screening of Godzilla vs. Kong, I stopped at a gun store to see what they had. Unfortunately, they didn't have what I wanted (Winchester .30-.30 ammo).
But, that worked out good because before going to the theater, I filled The Beast's gas tank and went to a neighboring coin-operated car wash (that accepts credit cards) and gave The Beast a good, badly-needed wash.
Following that, I headed over to the theater to see the movie. The theater had stadium seating. Each seat reclined and had a swivel tray. The seat was too comfortable as I had to keep from dozing off.
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| Above, this had to be the fanciest theater seat I ever seen. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
After the movie, I headed out of Durango for home. I made one stop. It was the Tsaya Trading Post that's a few miles north of Crownpoint, New Mexico. The route in New Mexico took me through the Navajo Nation.
After unpacking, I watched a Blu-ray on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad I bought at the Durango Station gift shop.
All in all, it was a good trip and very enjoyable.
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| Above, Gallup UFO Film Festival founder Chuck Wade giving his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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| Above, a slide on a UFO crash near San Antonio, New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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| Above, a slide of found UFO crash debris. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
According to decades-old information, the story goes like this: For three days in March 1950, hundreds of flying saucer-like objects floated over Farmington. The Farmington Daily Times newspaper was flooded with calls from citizens who witnessed the UFOs. They ran a giant headline, which screamed, “Huge ‘Saucer’ Armada Jolts Farmington,” across the top of the paper in bold, all-caps letters. “Crafts Seen By Hundreds,” another headline read.
“Fully half of this town’s population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft — hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from ‘several’ to more that (sic) 500. Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge Los Alamos Atomic installation.”
The article went on to claim that the objects, which one witness estimated to be about the size of a B-29 airplane, seemed “to play tag high in the air,” and raced across the sky at speeds estimated to be about 1,000 miles an hour.
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| Above, a map of 7 New Mexico UFO crash sites. Phot by Armand Vaquer. |
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| Above, a statement from one who saw alien bodies in a crashed UFO. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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| Above, Zuni elder Clifford Mahooty gives his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
