Day 13: Carlsbad Caverns then to Odessa, Texas
Thursday October 20th: We were up early and had breakfast at “Jerry’s” which turned out to be not as good as Denny’s normally are, however...
Category: Work Trips
Day 14: Odessa to Fort Worth Stockyards
Friday October 21st: Breakfast at the Carrows in Odessa was slow because there was an Oil Show on in town and they were very busy....
Day 15: Postscript… the flight back
Saturday October 22nd: Including the time at my meeting at Garrett Creek Ranch, we’d been in the States for almost three weeks and it was...
JPL Pasadena: the Huntington-Sheraton
The meeting took place at what was then the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. Opened in 1914 under the ownership of the railway tycoon...
Disneyland and Watts Towers
Before the Seasat-JASIN meeting, Nicky and I visited my friends in Claremont, just east of Pasadena. They took us to two very different “attractions” in...
Botanic Gardens
I think that photographs from the trip depict two Botanic Gardens. One is the collection of cacti at the Huntington Library situated a few blocks...
Claremont, March 1980
I think this may have been the trip when Nicky and I stayed in a house belonging to University colleagues of my friends while the...
Weekend Car Hire
The IUGG Assembly ran from Monday 3rd to Saturday 15th December. On the middle weekend I joined some colleagues from the Oceanography Institute in Wormley...
Sydney
At the end of the IUGG meeting a colleague and his wife from the Oceanography Institute invited me to drive down to Sydney with them....