We had a great adventure day today. We left Max and Becky’s around nine and headed up to Los Alamos on our way to the San Antonio Hot Springs. Just driving through Los Alamos was interesting because we had to go through security checkpoints coming into town from both directions. The national lab they’re still works mostly a nuclear weapons which is pretty freaky

The countryside around there beautiful though… And we took the long Windee road up towards the San Antonio Hot Springs. The small Forest Road was open so instead of walking 5 miles we got to drive it… Which was only about twice as fast. Literally half an hour to go 5 miles. The Hot Springs themselves were really nice… There was only two other couples there so it was not at all crowded. The water was quite warm… They’re not hot.We tried a bunch of the pools…

Afterwords Dean and I hiked down and took another trail out and had a small picnic. It was very cool red and white color sand everywhere.The countryside could not have been prettier

On the way home we stopped at the greatb Caldera national monument… We are 1,000,000 years ago a giant volcanic don’t irrupt it and then collapsed creating a huge green valley

Our next stop was at the Los Alamos history Museum… We got there with only half an hour to see it… And it was really an interesting place… Pretty unsettling . On one hand it was amazing to see the evidence of the science that brought about the atomic bomb… The dedication secrecy and I can’t help but saying playfulness of these top scientists were gathered there. At the same time I cannot shake or condone what those guys did and creating those weapons… I know it was a tough situation because they had who knows what would’ve happened. Still it was an eerie thing to see. The museum was full of relics of people like Oppenheimer, for me, Grover… Definitely A fascinating place



One of the places you could visit was one of the scientists homes… It was Becky who won the Nobel prize at one point… As many of these guys did.… The house was used to entertain some of the most famous scientist of all times including Oppenheimer, fermi , Feynman… It was a great poster of all of the peoples bare feet prints that was made as a Christmas card… Where else could you see fermi and Feinmen’s and finance foot prints…

Or some of the Nobel prizes

Or use the same bathroom as some of those great scientist… I use the same bathroom as fermi and Feynman.… How cool is that?

The house was really amazing… Lots of relics including a completely reserve the kitchen and maps of what would now be useless bomb shelters

Despite it being a pretty place with lots of great history… Neither of us could shake a solemnity or horror of what this place created…

I also know that the men and women who are working here are doing what they thought was best to train and a very costly and definitely war…

There’s no doubt that the bombs on Hiroshima and Akasaka change the course of the war… And that’s what might’ve happened otherwise might have been cosplayer… But it’s still is a morally impossible calculus.It must’ve been a very Difficult matter for them to personally square

It was a little ironic that was built on the grounds of an ancient native Pueblo.

OK… That’s all for today… I apologize if this is hard to read. I’m dictating it outside with poor light. More tomorrow. Hopefully with better light

Nite all, nite sam

-me