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The Moon through stripes of clouds at 75 mph and 210mm telephoto.
End of day 1, sleepover Bakersfield.
Harris Ranch to Bakersfield. End of day (afternoon) 1.
Bakersfield, breakfast.
Tehachapi pass.
Desert art fountain.
I-40 few miles before Arizona.
Colorado river.
Needle mountains
Zzzzzzzzz.....
Red rock starting to show.
Zzzzzzzzzzz.....
Mojave
Mojave solar installation.
More solar farming near Barstow.
Today 832 km (516 mi) from Bakersfield to Sedona / Elevation / Speed plots. End of day 2.
Amara ( http://www.amararesort.com/ )
San Francisco Peaks, 3851 m.
Tunguska event?
Grand Canyon, views from the south rim.
Phantom ranch 1.
Phantom ranch 2.
Way way down - Colorado river.
San Francisco peaks.
Sedona.
Sedona to Grand Canyon via route 180 and back (thus the mirror image). The middle low is hiking speed. End of day 3 (and over 1000 miles on the road).
Early morning start 7:03 AM. From Sedona route 89.
Commerce in sunrise.
Joseph (coal) city.
Joseph city.
Electrified landscape in New Mexico.
Trinity.
Lava flows.
Driving to 3 rivers petroglyphs.
Sedona, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Alamogordo. End of Day 4.
Holloman AFB.
Crystalline gypsum sand.
Almost like snow.
Sand angels.
Whiteout.
Alamogordo.
Museum of space history, Alamogordo.
Largest British rocket, ever.
Little Joe II.
V2 combustion chamber.
V2 tail section.
Graphite...
Rusting V2 metal.
Rocket sled.
An interesting ride.
Tracking radar.
Nike.
Apollo - F1 engine.
F1 - Detail.
V2 rot.
High mass turbo pump.
Apollo life support system.
Fuel cell.
V2 gyro.
X-1 rocket engine.
Echo II.
V2 sequencer.
Viking camera.
Believe.
The Roswell Incident.
Majic.
UFO catalog :)
Roswell City Hall.
Saucer McD.
Cattle barons.
Serious meat.
More serious meat.
Albuquerque, White Sands, Albuquerque, Roswell, Santa Fe. End of day 5.
From Santa Fe to Los Alamos.
The mesa of Los Alamos.
Road to Bandelier National Monument.
Frijoles Canyon.
Commerce.
Keith Richards relative.
Tewa patterns.
Long house.
Turkey petroglyph.
Heh, the Thomas Cone.
I built a nuclear device and all I got is this copper pin?
These are fun when you run for three miles with them stuck to your face.
Got a sample of this as well. We'll see at home if it emits anything.
Computing tubes, or if you prefer, valves.
Small and deadly.
Gerbils?
Hundreds of kilotons.
Graffitis?
One time cabling job.
Drill head.
Listening to a bomb.
Little boy.
Fat man.
Los Alamos to Santa Fe.
New Mexico fare.
Disk drive gone, bad, bad, bad - backups in place though.
Santa Fe to Bandalier, Los Alamos and back to Santa Fe. End of Day 6.
Hotel Eldorado - Santa Fe.
State Capitol New Mexico.
Atomic desert.
Gallup.
Santa Fe - shopping.
Albuquerque.
The weather deteriorates entering Arizona.
Petrified Forest National Park.
And then in Flagstaff, all roads to Sedona are closed. End of day 7.
Next morning after removing a bunch of snow.
Asked for snow, got snow.
Finally back to Amara, 1 night delay.
Oaxaca restaurant, Sedona.
Extras.
Burning excess afterlunch energy.
Flagstaf to Sedona (via 17 and 179).
End of day 8.
Bell Rock.
-11.5 C
Route 66, driving to Grand Canyon caverns.
The gathering.
Sleep in a cavern?
Nice and warm.
Selenite.
Yaaaaaaay!
Cavern hotel room.
Cuban missile crisis blast shelter provisions.
More Selenite.
The giant sloth.
Las Vegas.
End of Year - 2010. End of day 9.
Sedona to Las Vegas. End of day 9.
The unmarked planes terminal.
Very unmarked.
New York and Paris in one shot - priceless.
Changed to lighter camera.
Lion King show.
Done for the night. End of day 10.
Close to Edwards AFB.
3446.4 miles, at home.
Las Vegas to Home. End of day 11.
Santa was here.