Science

 3/5- Hi Desert RV Park, Albuquerque NM

   We started today off with a bang heading into Los Alamos to check out the town. The whole place is perched on top of a mesa and is filled with different laboratories. We even at one point had to pass through security. A town looks very new and everything is neat and tidy. The best thing in the town though was the Bradbury Museum. 

   This place was astonishing. It had so many facts and displays I just couldn’t keep up, my mind was so boggled. It had the whole detailed history of the Manhattan Project as well as full sized replicas of the two bombs. There were sections on all the different areas the lab is working on now. There was displays on alternative fuels and nano technology as well as super computing. Everything was done in such detail you could spend days looking at it all. We were exhausted after a couple of hours. 

   We decided to take the long way out as we went by the Valle Caldera National Monument. This is the site of a huge volcano that erupted and then the sides collapsed and then the dome pushed up. Anyway what you ended up with was this huge expanse of what looked like tundra to me in this huge bowl in the mountains. It was grass for the most part with no trees at all. The caldera itself is 14 miles wide. It does include small hills but mostly it’s this grassy plain. 

    After this we drove through some beautiful pine forests going up and down and around lots of mesas and canyons. We eventually dropped down to the canyon floor and wove our way past these shear canyon walls. Some were an incredibly deep red color. 

    We managed to survive driving through Albuquerque at one of the busiest times and pulled into the rv park. We have stayed here before and it is interesting because it it filled with all these metal sculptures. There are galloping horses, buffalo, mules and even a full sized wagon with drivers and a full team of four horses. All these sculptures are made out steel and welded together and are full sized. It is quite the incredible collection. 

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