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Jun 3, 2012 - Trinity Site

Today we drove from Alamogordo to Logan, NM, passing by the Trinity Site. As you may know, this is where the first test of an atomic bomb was conducted, the end result of the Manhattan Project. It's an eerie area, very quiet and desolate looking. The bomb was detonated just outside the small towns of Carrizozo and Carona. Can you imagine what the residents must have thought and experienced on that spring morning in 1945? The entire Alamogordo area is part of the White Sands Missile Range where they still shoot off live missiles from...

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Maine Bound

Apr 15, 2010 - Logan, New Mexico

4/15 – 4/18. Three days and 635 miles brought us to Ute State Park in Logan, New Mexico (SR387, SR87, SR79, US60, SR36, SR117, I-40, US54). Stops along the way included a K-Mart parking lot in Show Low, Arizona and a Wal-Mart parking lot in Edgewood, New Mexico. The second day we revisited at an excellent 4 star Mexican restaurant in Grants, New Mexico called El Cafecito (820 East Santa Fe Rd. 505-285-6229) We spent two days in Ute State Park enjoying the beautiful campground and our view of Ute Lake. We drove into Logan to check out the...

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Aug 17, 2008 - If it is 1 o'clock this must be Texas

Today we drove through four states (and we are not at the four corner of AZ, NM, UT, CO). US Highway 54 extends along a diagonal from Northeast to Southwest from Kansas, through the panhandle of Oklahoma, the upper panhandle of Texas to New Mexico. It roughly parallels the old Santa Fe Trail. The highway took us from the plains of Kansas with it's rich cowboy and cattle history. We saw several references to the cattle drives from Texas as well as the Santa Fe Trail which moved goods from Santa Fe to this area. With the land as flat and...

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