Sunday - January 11, 1998: Santa Fe, NM to Los Alamos, NM
Where the Elk and the Jackalope Play...
We slept like babies after yesterdays pummeling at Ten Thousand Waves, so it was not surprising that we woke up too late to make it to Los Alamos in time for our planned visit to the Science Museum there. Instead we spent much of the morning/afternoon at Jackalope, a huge arts and crafts shop that specializes in Native American and Mexican folk art, and purchased a few items to brighten up Brad's apartment (and a gift or two for friends back home).

After too much time there (Desi would have bought a bigger car if only she'd known...) We headed out of town, finally beginning some Westward movement. We drove through and over the peacefully quiet mesas to Los Alamos, NM...Definitely a company town. It's up on the top of one of those mesas, very small, featuring lots of nondescript beige buildings camoflaged into the hills with names like "Tech Area 32" and "Science Lab 7" whereever you drove.

We stopped in at Bandelier National Monument nearby, just in time for closing, and have promised ourselves to wake up early and see the old Anasazi ruins there in the morning (hmmm…..). So hopefully more on that tomorrow.

Had our first Large Wildlife Sighting: two elk! They were nonchalantly nibbling the grass outside a nondescript government building, one with his face right up against a glass window. Gentle creatures of the Southwestern Mesas or incidious forgeign spies? You decide!