Lawrence Hosken: Departures: NM99

El Paso/Cuidad Juarez... Religions of India... The Road to the Carlsbad Caverns... J. Robert Oppenheimer... The Nebraskan... Albuquerque... Grants... Uranium... Los Alamos... Lightning strikes... Santa Fe... Nuclear waste... Trinity Test Site...

1999.03.15-1999.04.05

In March of 1999, the third millenium was so close that I could taste it. It was time to continue exploring the atomic world.

The year before, I'd gone to Oak Ridge, TN. I hadn't really meant to go there. I'd just been in the neighborhood, visiting relatives. I'd been fascinated.

In March of 1999, I was unemployed. No-one was relying on me for anything.

So I rode buses around the Southwest.

0. Rushing around... travel trauma... dust...
1. What I was Looking For... Hidden History... Space and Time...
2. Engineering Geniuses... Cultural Insensitivity... The Accidental Terrorist...
3. Juarez City... Border Double-Crossing...
4. Why the Food Was So Bad... Border Patrol... Trouble on the Horizon...
5. Desert landscape: one of the few kinds a person with allergies can enjoy...
6. Carlsbad Caverns... How to look like a hiker...
7. Waiting with the Nebraskan... Considering mayhem with a concealed pipe manipulation tool... Missing a chance for another hole in the ground... Drive-in movie theater with free beer... Whither WIPP PR?...
8. What happens when approval-cravers encounter a clueless stranger...
9. Hot links... Where the USA used to stop on Route 66... The One that Got Away...
a. A close brush with employment... Lindy/IHOP: the difference is coolness... Museum... Secret lore of the telcos...
b. This penguin has nothing to do with Linux... In retrospect, going to the movies was a mistake...

c. Rain and lightning... Good food and unreliable taxis...
d. Another hole in the ground... Some really good enchiladas...
e. Jana's Complexion... Nothing About Thule Base... Now I Am Become Editor, Elider of Words...
f. Los Alamos History...
g. Change of Address... Smut is in the eye of the beholder... Not all ASCII art is art... Suddenly, Ganesh...
h. Invisible art... Some good art... A Four-letter word... Meteorology trumps curiosity...
i. Approaching Zero...
j. Zero...
k. Beyond Zero.