10 June - We were driving the Jemez Mountain Scenic Highway, very varied and spectacular scenery.
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| First geocache find on the trip "Soda Dam" - built up by a steady accumulation of calcium carbonate |
Owen was keen to visit Los Alamos - the site of research and development of atomic bombs in WWII (The "Manhattan project"). We visited the Bradbury Science Museum which was very interesting. Los Alamos is also at a very high altitude - 2,800m (higher than Ruapehu!). We only drove higher than this one other time on this trip.
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| Life-size model of "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 |
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| Life-size model of "Fat Man" - atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki 9 August 1945 |
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| Owen stands beside life-size statues of Robert J Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves - leaders of the Manhattan Project |
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