I visited White Sands in 1990 to undergo centrifuge training (3 runs
getting up to 9g) at Holloman and it is a wonderful place.
Unfortunately I did not have time to take photos. Alamagordo may be
a cheap place to stay, but it stocked expensive western boots then.
I could not believe that the staple footwear of that part of the
world (or so I thought) would cost $300.
I don't know how they can describe the F117 as a "fighter". It's
really a mini-B2 bomber at a 1/10th the cost, at a guess. It can
fight as well as this beer glass in my hand ...
... well it would be in my hand if I were not typing, and if it were
not 0745 ;-).
Which empire controls Expedia please?
Chris
At 22:43 -0700 27/11/02, Garth Wood wrote:
At 12:22 AM 11/28/2002 -0500, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
What a wierd place! You say it's on _this_ planet? I'd say you metered
and composed well. Nice job.
Thanks. Yeah, White Sands looks a lot like Mars, in my mind. Also
got several more rolls here, as well as at places like Tent Rocks
(near Santa Fe, if memory serves), which is so strange looking that
it's been used by Hollywood for a number of movies and several
series, the most notable of which (at least to me) was "Earth II"
back in the mid-Nineties.
White Sands is several hundred square miles, most of which is
off-limits to civvies 'cause the pilots at Holloman AFB use it as a
weapons testing and practise range. Unfortunately, that also means
we weren't able to get a close-up look at Trinity (where they
detonated the first atomic bomb) 'cause it's on the northern end of
the range. However, there were a lot of F117A Stealth fighters
flying around the skies over White Sands, which was interesting.
While Alamogordo doesn't have a lot to offer in itself, it was
fairly central to a number of sights around southeastern New Mexico,
so it made a good base of operations. It was relatively cheap, too
-- $58.00 U.S./night for an executive suite at the Best Western
Desert Aire. (In fact, with the exception of the two nights we
stayed at Star Hill Inn, we *never* paid more than $58.00 U.S./night
anywhere, including a suite hotel in the Denver Tech Center -- gotta
love making reservations via Expedia, even if it is controlled by
the Evil Empire... 8^> ).
Garth
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