May 2000: New Mexico Road Trip
A week driving around New Mexico before a scientific editorial meeting at Cloudcroft, NM. Also walking into Juárez in Mexico from El Paso.
A day by day account of a road trip around part of New Mexico in the year 2000. Starting and ending at El Paso, Texas, the trip included the Gila Cliff Dwellings, the Ver Large Array, Las Vegas (NM), White Sands, and Cloud Croft where I was part of a scientific Working Group.
A week driving around New Mexico before a scientific editorial meeting at Cloudcroft, NM. Also walking into Juárez in Mexico from El Paso.
Day 1 (Saturday): This trip had an inauspicious start! On the morning of my flight I discovered that the plane left London Gatwick airport at...
Day 2 (Sunday): Woke up early (helped by jet lag) and walked out to find that the local diner was closed at that time on a...
Day 3 (Monday): After a “reasonable” sleep I was up by 0615 so went to McDonalds for breakfast because I was sure everything else would...
Day 4 (Tuesday): – Leaving my Bear Creek Cabin, I had a proper American style breakfast at the Corner Cafe in Silver City, then drove...
Day 5 (Wednesday): I left the motel in Magdalena at around 0630am to drive to Socorro. It was still windy, at 7am it was 61...
Day 6 (Thursday): Having written yesterday’s diary notes in my hotel room, at around 0730 am I walked into east Las Vegas to “Carmen’s” (now...
Day 7 (Friday): I’m was due to meet up with other participants in the science meeting tomorrow at El Paso International Airport before we headed...
Day 8 (Saturday): I was worried that forecast was for southeasterly winds which might take fires towards Cloudcroft. However the El Paso news read over...
The meeting ran from Sunday, 14th May (day 9 of my trip) to Wednesday, 17th May. It was an editorial meeting for the final touches...