Been to Los Alamos, New Mexico this weekend. This place was initially founded where Oppenheimer split the atom. They still have laboratories there where lots of physicians work. Oh well it was really nice there and very hot!!

Went into a volcano crater which was huge!!! Obviously it was an inactive one, but it was very interesting anyway. We then went to an Indian reservation where there were some ruins of an old Indian village.

I climbed up to some caves at this place where they would have lived. I can tell you that in the heat there was I was shattered, also we were about 7,400 ft up which is another factor. Anyway, I'm realising that everywhere here is high and you have to be fit or else you just plain out of breath!

Me at bandellier1

This is me on the way down, so I could cope with working my timer on the camera.

Anyway, the day I arrived in Los Alamos I was shattered after a 7 hour drive and the last two miles I could tell I was climbing and I couldn't see anything to the side of me (ie: shrubs, hard shoulder etc) just barrier then nothing. I thought to myself I be I'm on the side of a cliff! Well don't they say ignorance is bliss!?!?!?! This is the view...................

Looking back towards santa fe

And yes I am on the road (I was the passenger). Heres another one of the road coming down from Los Alamos!

road down from Los Alamos1

Anyway had a great weekend and saw loads of Indians, bought a sand painting off one guy which is stunning. He was telling me he was from the Navajo which is the tribe which were the code talkers in the second world war, and he came from near where I'm going on holiday. So he was explaining that where I'm going is where he got the sand for the painting I bought! But I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw these on the road side!!!!

Teepees

They're real ones as well!!! It's stunning here and the people are all very nice.

Oh well back to work tomorrow - not exstatic about that after driving for 13 and a half hours and 950 miles in two days!!! Think I'm getting old!

There will be loads of blogs when I'm on holiday which is now only 15 working days away so stay tuned!!!