it was an interesting weather week in Santa Fe, with a massive electrical storm the night we arrived, and then thunderstorms at some time pretty much every day. Driving back from Los Alamos yesterday afternoon we actually got a broadcast alert on the cellphone for heavy rain and flash flooding, but the storm was already ahead of us, so when we got back to the campground there were a few piles of hail sitting around and a lot of leaves and other debris on the ground showing that we missed the best of it. I went to empty the black water waste tank this morning and found the sewer hose looking like swiss cheese, so it must have been a pretty brutal hailstorm. And before anyone comments, it wasn't what we were putting down the hose, as it also happen to a couple of other campers on the site.
Having said that, after a week of chile with every meal, including breakfasts, our digestive systems are rebelling a bit. Lister would be proud.
Santa Fe lived up to my hopes - good food, history and architecture from the Spanish conquistadors onwards, and Los Alamos was particularly good - it was interesting to compare the secrecy and controls they worked under with those at Bletchley Park, and there are parallels in the behaviour of both governments to Oppenheimer being suspected of being a communist and Turing being gay.
A few days now chilling out by the Rio Grande in Colorado, as the last week has been pretty full on, then back on the tourist trail on Monday heading up to Colorado Springs
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