Los Alamos and Taos

March 14-16, 2005

March 14-15: The forecast was for 1-3 inches but it kept snowing in Los Alamos for two days and we got about a foot of snow. They closed the lab, but the meeting went on anyway since we were already there.

That is our Roadtrek buried under all that snow. Since the university was paying for Gil to go to the meeting in Los Alamos, we stayed in a hotel. So we didn't experience what it is like to stay in the Roadtrek in the midst of a winter storm.
 

The Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos is very nice and has a good display on nuclear weapons and stockpile stewardship. The man in the picture is looking at a full-size model of the Fatman atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
 

Los Alamos is on a couple of mesas above the Rio Grande River; this picture was taken from the Los Alamos mesa looking across the Rio Grande to the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the distance. In a few days all this snow will be gone.
 

The San Francisco de Asis church a few miles south of Taos. The church was built in 1816. It is still a functioning parish church.
 

The Taos plaza is surrounded by stores selling art and crafts. Taos is a center for artists as well as skiing.
 

The mountains above Taos are very scenic; the fresh snow made them especially beautiful for our visit.