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Working Our Way North
It was our intent to visit New Mexico Space museum. We even drove there, but once in the parking lot we lost interest. Instead we stopped at a thrift store and soon thereafter started our drive north on Hi 25. Along the way we stopped at the City of Dona Ana (don't know how to place the tilde on the n). Around 1pm I was pretty hungry but Jack kept …
Hung over but travelling!!!!!!!
... to go for a shower I packed up and got ready to leave. Eventually we left at 11am. Thank goodness we had left the majority of bags on the bike the night prior!
It was sunny and warm and one of us was enjoying the day. It was windy for the first hour. We stopped at the New Mexico border to take a photo of the sign and another rider pulled up to do the same.
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Tech Time
... would expect from college dorms. From here we talked with some people from the financial aid office and admissions office to just learn a bit more about some of the finite details of the college process. Then we met up with the mother-daughter combo again and got a tour of the entire campus. The whole school is designed with a fun Southwestern style and is very well manicured. And although it was raining the ...
Socorro or Bust!
... and I headed south toward the University. We did however, make a quick pit stop in the town of Los Lunas, just outside of Albuquerque to get lunch at the town's Sonic! Being from Washington State where it seems to be in a constant rain storm, we don't really have any Sonics, and I've already seen three! After our quick lunch break we headed onward to Socorro, which is about 75 miles south of Albuquerque.
While driving ...
CARL SAGAN WAS HERE.
... to the staff on-site Sagan was there several times. If I recall correctly, the last 15 minutes of the episode "The Edge of Forever" was dedicated to the VLA. It is also designated as the National Radio Astronomy Observatory or NRAO for short.
There was something stark and beautiful about these perfectly aligned radio telescopes out in the high desert, with mountains all around and not much else. Some cows ...
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