Los Alamos / Valle Caldera / Rio Grande

I visit Los Alamos in the morning - now a normal town but still with the National Laboratories and a lot of restricted areas. The division of the surrounding landscape into Technical Areas dating from the Manhattan Project is still in place. Veep Bradbury Science Museum educate about the atomic bomb project and work going on in the laboratories today. But in town, there is not much left.

Later, I drive to Valles Caldera, a huge volcanic area, then used for ranching and now a National Monument, before continuing up the Rio Grande to the Lower Gorge.Read more