Do you ever get that feeling that you're constantly traveling? I sure do. But travel has it's advantages. After spending a week in Reno resuscitating our dead lawn and almost dead Birch tree (lawn care and too much travel are not compatible), we headed out to Santa Fe. The Los Alamos conference on gramps' centennial went well I thought. I especially enjoyed the Saturday symposium and NM Senator Jeff Bingaman's analysis of JRO's security hearing in 1954. And writer Richard Rhodes' speech. It is a weird feeling being connected to a historical figure, and attending public events about him. But on balance I was glad I went, and learned a lot. Here is a shot of Ella and I in the NY Times. You can see Karen's mouth if you look closely. Apparently we are more photogenic than Governor Richardson and Senator Pete Domenici, as they were there too, but no photo.
And to switch things up, we went backpacking east of Truchas, NM, although I won't give exact directions so Adam Buechley won't get mad at us. We didn't go over the Windsor trail to Pecos as planned because it was closed due to fire danger. We had a great hike, and camped near the most beautiful waterfall I've ever seen in New Mexico. And we summitted one of the highest peaks in NM, West Truchas peak, at about 13,066 feet.
We're flying back to Reno tomorrow, and I have to go to a one day trip to Orange County on Thursday. Still have that feeling.
Posted by choppen5 at June 29, 2004 05:22 PM
