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...
Category: Work Trips
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...
Boulder and the Rocky Mountain National Park
Boulder is (or at least was, it might have changed by now!) a laid back place which, despite being located near the centre of a...
Leadville
Wednesday: We headed southeast from Boulder crossing the Continental Divide at the Loveland Pass. All rivers to the east flow towards the Atlantic, to the...
From Leadville to Mesa Verde
On the Thursday we travelled from Leadville to Salida which is a centre for white river rafting. I have no photographs, maybe we were still...