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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Friday, April 20, 2018

LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO

Tuesday, April 17th, it was time for us to get away from home for a change. So we drove up Historic Rt 66 to Walmart at Moriarty, NM. The day before we had gone up Rt 14 to check out a couple Thrift Stores. They were very interesting and unique.
In the mean time, Gary made plans to make a trip north to Los Alamos on Wednesday for a look at the First part of the plans for the a-bomb research. We got things backward by going to the test sight first.
Leaving our Park where they have a wall of the
many red rocks of the area. Beautiful!












We loved the scenery on the drive!!  Some sites we wondered, if they had been locations of mines in years past and mountains that looked to be Pueblo locations of many years in past history. We did go into a little village on a curve that was the home of a mine where we stopped for a bite to eat in the afternoon at The Hollar. I will show those pictures later.
Our travels continue up Rt. 66 on to Los Alamos.













Not a curve that we would want to take in the motorhome!

This valley in the mountains of northern New Mexico was chosen by the government for the research of nuclear weapons in the early '40's since we were in a war at that time. We new there was research being done by some of the other countries of the war.  Thus it was time for us to catch up. This valley had very few residents except for the Boy's Ranch, so the government was able to have the residents move out. Thus making Los Alamos a Secret City for their needs.

I won't retype the historical information, but will give you pictures that I took which give this information. 





 




 
Following are just three examples of graduates from this Boy's Education Ranch.




 




Many Nobel Peace Prize recipients for the sciences, education,
government and work done were pictured on their walls.




















 A few of the homes used during this early period of Los Alamos still stand for museum use, and some are still lived in and not open for viewing.




I know this was a long Blog, but there was so much history here.
Los Alamos is now a thriving city and very interesting, and is still home of many research labs for sciences of all types, including medical. Thousands are employed here.
Have a great day and I will do our second stop of the day in a new Blog tomorrow.
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