The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Albuquerque
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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Welcoming missile in parking lot.
A Redstone SRBM from ~1958
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Phial of Heavy Water ("Detuterium Oxide")
From Norsk-Hydro Electrolysis Plant, 1935
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German Uranium Cube
From German WWII Nuclear program
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| Los Alamos assembly mockup
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| Los Alamos lab mockup
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| Replica of "Little Boy" (Hiroshima Bomb)
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| Replica of "Fat Man" (Nagasaki Bomb)
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| Replica of the "Gadget" (Trinity test device)
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| Santa Fe newspaper from day after Hirosmina
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| Gratuitous Soviet Propaganada Poster
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| Gratuitous Soviet Propaganada Poster
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First US nuclear missle (1954)
"Honest John" battlefield nuke
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Damaged casing from Palomares bomb
Accidentally dropped into the sea in 1966
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| Minuteman Missile
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| Thor IRBM, with RAF markings. ~1960
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| Titan Missile
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BOMARC nucelar tipped surface-to-air ramjet missile.
Designed to target bombers up to 250 miles away. ~1959
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| MACE. Early cruise missile ~1956
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| ?? unidentified cruise missile ??
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| Nuclear Canon. Range 15-19 miles. 1953-63
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| Replica of Trinity Test tower
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Petroglyphs National Monument
I ambled around the Piedras Marcadas Canyon trail, viewing some of the petroglyphs, from roughly 1300-1600 AD.
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| Desert Landscape at Piedras Marcadas Canyon
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Around Albuquerque
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| San Felipe de Neri (from 1793)
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| San Felipe de Neri
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Chaco Canyon
Home to various Chacoan Great Houses, from 850-1250 AD
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| Mesa en route
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| Una Vida petroglphys
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| View to Pueblo Bonito
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| The "Great House" was a large multi-floor complex
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| A Great Kiva
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Well built stone wall
Log beam suported the next floor
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| View over Pueblo Bonito
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| View over smaller kivas at Pueblo Bonito
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| Chetro Ketl: Great Kiva
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| Casa Riconada: KIva on a low hill
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| Casa Riconada
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| Fajada Butte
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| My loyal Maxda CX-5
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Aztec Ruins
Nothing to do with the Aztecs, but another Chacoan-style Great House, 50 miles North of Chaco Canyon
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| The Great House
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| Restored and Reimagined Great Kiva
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| Graham in restore Great Kiva
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Four Corners
The Four Corners monument at the meeting point of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
Monument Valley
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| "Three Sisters"
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| "Three Sisters" + Graham
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| Rock spires
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| Barad-dûr like crag, 12 miles SW of MV
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| 12 miles South of Monument Valley
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| Mesa + Spire, 13 miles SW of MV
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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
An eerie alien wilderness, full of weirdly shaped and weathered rocks
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| Petrified Wood
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| Petrified Log
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| Petrified Log
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Bisti/De-Na-Zin: The Alien Egg Hatchery
A group of strangely shaped rocks, like cracked and hatched eggs.
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| Definitely not an alien skull. Really. For sure.
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Santa Fe
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| Empty Plinth of Soldier Monument
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| Notice on Empty Plinth
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| New Mexico History Museum
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New Mexico State Capitol
The New Mexico State Capitol is deliberately designd as a low key affair.
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| Discreet, tree-shielded State Capitol
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New Mexico State Capitol
The dome is discreetly obscured
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| Rotunda with seal of New Mexico
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| Interior: Rotunda Dome
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| Senate Chamber
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| House Chamber
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| New Mexico Governor's Office
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"Kearny's March" across New Mexico in 1846
Leading Union troops to secure California
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Taos Area
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| Rio Grande, 15 miles SW of Ranchos de Taos
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| Rio Grande, at Rio Grande Gorge visitor center
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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
An impressive piece of engineering.
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| The Rio Grande Gorge is about 600 feet deep at the High Bridge
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| View from Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
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| View from Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
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| View straight down from bridge
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Taos
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| Taos Plaza
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| Taos Plaza: Hotel la Fonda
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| Taos Plaza "Old County Courthouse" (1932)
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| "Couse-Sharp Historic House"
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| Kit Carson Home & Museum
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| Kit Carson Home & Museum
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Colorado Springs
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| Pioneers Museum (Old County Courthouse, 1899)
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| Pioneers Museum (Old County Courthouse, 1899)
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| Restored Old District Court Room
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Hank the Cowboy
Emblem of the "Pikes Peak or Bust" Rodeo
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| Colorado Springs City Hall
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Garden of the Gods
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| View to Pike's Peak
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| "Balanced Rock" (700 tons)
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| "Balanced Rock" (700 tons)
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Rocky Mountain National Park
A drive up the Ridge Road and a gentle hike up the Ute Trail.
Denver
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| Denver City Hall
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| Denver City Hall
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Civic Center Park is closed
Due to various problems associated with a homeless encampment (?)
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The "Big Blue Bear"
Outside the Convention Center
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Big Blue Bear + Graham
Viewed from inside the center
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Giant “Scottish Angus Cow and Calf”
They are very sweet
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| “Scottish Angus Cow and Calf” + Graham
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| Denver Union Station
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| Union Station interior
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| Union Station interior
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| South Platte River
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Colorado State Capitol
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| View to State Capitol
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| Colorado State Capitol
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| Mile High marker
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| Mike High marker
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Empty Plinth outside State Capitol
Formerly held Civil War Union Soldier monument
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| "Look Ahead America" Rally
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Denver Musuem of Nature and Science
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| Denver Museum of Nature and Science
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| A very fine mineral collection
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| Pink Rhodochrosite
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| Octahedral Fluorite crystals. (No Trigons)
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Folsom Spear Point, between bison ribs
Dated to 10,400 YA, found in 1927 by Denver Museum team
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| "Fly like a Dinosaur" VR exhibit
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| Dinosaur Paddock
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