Lunch and a Lot More Driving
When we left Trinity Site we were all getting just a little hungry. What better place to stop for lunch than Owl Cafe in San Antonio, NM? Their green chile cheeseburgers have been rated the best in the state I don't know how many times. I had never had one. It was soooo good. And, it should be. The meat is ground on site (no fillers!). The patties are formed by hand. And all the ingredients are fresh. One really big down side. The service was absolutely terrible. I know San Antonio is a small town (pop. about 800), but there are lots of big events (like the Trinity Site open house) that have people going through town often enough that you'd think it'd be a little better. Probably won't stop me from going back though.
Instead of heading north back to Albuquerque, we went to the Very Large Array (VLA) about an hour west of Socorro. What is the VLA? It's part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory . It consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration. Each is 82 feet in diameter. The data from the antennas can be combined to give the same resolution as an antenna up to 22 miles across. Isn't that exciting? (I know, I'm a geek.) If you happen to look at the pictures on the website and it looks familiar to you, that might be because you saw it in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster.
You can go anytime for a self-guided tour, but two days of the year they offer guided tours. Not so coincidentally, those two days just happen to be the same as the Trinity Site open house days. We missed the last tour by about 20 minutes. We didn't do a self-guided tour either. The weather had gotten cold, windy and rainy during our drive there. I hadn't been there since the kids were little and there was hardly any Visitor Center to speak of. The Visitor Center is so much larger and has so much more information now and they're still expanding. There's even a gift shop. We looked over all the information at the Visitor Center and then headed back to Albuquerque. Don't you love this tile? It was on the wall, in the bathroom.
When we left Trinity Site we were all getting just a little hungry. What better place to stop for lunch than Owl Cafe in San Antonio, NM? Their green chile cheeseburgers have been rated the best in the state I don't know how many times. I had never had one. It was soooo good. And, it should be. The meat is ground on site (no fillers!). The patties are formed by hand. And all the ingredients are fresh. One really big down side. The service was absolutely terrible. I know San Antonio is a small town (pop. about 800), but there are lots of big events (like the Trinity Site open house) that have people going through town often enough that you'd think it'd be a little better. Probably won't stop me from going back though.
Instead of heading north back to Albuquerque, we went to the Very Large Array (VLA) about an hour west of Socorro. What is the VLA? It's part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory . It consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration. Each is 82 feet in diameter. The data from the antennas can be combined to give the same resolution as an antenna up to 22 miles across. Isn't that exciting? (I know, I'm a geek.) If you happen to look at the pictures on the website and it looks familiar to you, that might be because you saw it in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster. 
You can go anytime for a self-guided tour, but two days of the year they offer guided tours. Not so coincidentally, those two days just happen to be the same as the Trinity Site open house days. We missed the last tour by about 20 minutes. We didn't do a self-guided tour either. The weather had gotten cold, windy and rainy during our drive there. I hadn't been there since the kids were little and there was hardly any Visitor Center to speak of. The Visitor Center is so much larger and has so much more information now and they're still expanding. There's even a gift shop. We looked over all the information at the Visitor Center and then headed back to Albuquerque. Don't you love this tile? It was on the wall, in the bathroom.
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