Because there are so many pictures of this particular trip they are broken into 3 pages. This is page 3.
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Our final tourist-spot destination in Colorado Springs was the Air Force Academy.
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The chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs
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Pipe organ in the chapel
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This campground is at Raton Pass, on the CO/NM border
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At a rest stop in New Mexico
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Mimes in the plaza in old Santa Fe
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Old Santa Fe
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Old Santa Fe
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Old Santa Fe
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Michael ran out of battery power in his camera, so a number of these Old Santa Fe photos were taken by him with my camera. He is a prolific photographer, which partly explains the number of pictures for this trip!
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Old Santa Fe
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A visit to Los Alamos and the Bradbury museum turned up a very distant relative who worked on the Manhattan project. Hugh Bradner is better known as the inventor of the wet suit.
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Hugh and Marjorie Bradner
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Model of "The Gadget" which was the first test nuke
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There are historic monuments along Route 66 through Santa Fe. This one, besides hiding a geocache, is a monument to trailer parks. The inscription reads "The pulled into the trailer park shortly past midnight. It had been a long drive from the border with Texas, chugging down Route 66 with trailer in tow. They believed they were headed to the coast. When they awoke the next morning, they somehow knew that this would be the town in which they would spend the rest of their lives."
There is a trailer park on the other side of the wall.
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Route 66 Trailer Park Monument
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My own Very Large Array
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I talked everyone into a side-trip to see the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes that is best known from the movie "Contact." We scouted locations to find a good one where I could capture our own large array with part of the VLA in the distance.
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Campground near the VLA in New Mexico
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The VLA in New Mexico
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The VLA in New Mexico
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The VLA in New Mexico
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The final destination was our 5th annual Datastorm Rally in Tucson. This was the biggest one yet, with a full week of seminars, meals, etc., and nearly 120 RVs and their owners in attendance.
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Don Murray, a regular at PNWCO outings, was there with his wife Mary
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Duelling cameras with Chris Guld
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Janet Adams installing a new Datastorm
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Michael, Jim and Chris Guld, along with Odie and Patrick
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Jim Pendleton, Motosat President, with opening remarks
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Jim and I doing a networking seminar
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Ed Travis, Motosat Chief Engineer
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A panel discussion
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Socializing
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Some of the Datastorm dishes with their blue lights
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Handing out a geocoin at a seminar on geocaching
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The grand prize winner on the final night, with Jim and Motosat VP Royal Lamb
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