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.
Category: New Mexico 2000
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.
Day 1: Flight to El Paso, Texas
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: El Paso to Silver City
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: Gila Cliff Dwellings
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: Bear Creek to Magdalena
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: Magdalena to Las Vegas NM
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: Las Vegas to Carrizozo
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: Carrizozo to Tularosa
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: Tularosa to Cloudcroft
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...
Days 9 – 14: Cloudcroft, El Paso, Juárez and back to the UK
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...