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| September/October Trip in New Mexico | |||||||||||||||||
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| We checked out the three Salinas Missions, and then headed west again and went into White Sands Missile Range to see the Trinity Site. From there we drove north and spent several days each in Santa Fe and Taos. Click on any photo for a larger view |
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| This is a ruin of one of the Salinas Missions. | This is the largest and most intact of the three Salinas Missions. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Twice a year the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was tested is opened to the public. We happened to be in the area so we drove in early in the morning. The military police were directing cars to a big parking lot after you drive about 20 some miles into the middle of no where. | This is a small ranch house about 2 miles from ground zero that the army took over. They hung tarps over the doors and windows to make it a 'clean room' and they did the final bomb core assembly here. | ||||||||||||||||
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| This is 'Big Boy', a large steel cast shell they were going to put the bomb in to test it. Instead they just sat it near ground zero to see what the effect of the blast would be. | |||||||||||||||||
| Here Penny is standing by the obelisk erected at ground zero. | |||||||||||||||||
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| We then headed north to Santa Fe. We went to one of the museums on Museum Hill, which had a special exhibit of Zia Pueblo Pottery. | |||||||||||||||||
| From Trinity we drove north past Albuquerque and all the Balloon Fiesta mania, and spent a night a Lake Cochiti resevoir, which had a nice campground. | |||||||||||||||||