Drove by it again on the way west to search for land. It is the site of the first Atomic Explosion. Public is only allowed to visit it twice a year when they open it for one day - I think in May and then Oct? You can go directly to ground zero. Really creeps me out. I want to go there one day and psychically or spiritually harness any latent power - I suspect there is! But it has such a dark aura about it under the bright, New Mexico sun. I take careful not of it's exact location relative to where I live in Ruidoso and the rest of New Mexico. Wow. I have to imagine the 1940's here. Where this site is located would have been hopelessly remote at the time of detonation. Pretty damn remote now!

Later on RT60 passed an enormous radio array set up that must be miles wide, the individual and gigantic radio telescopes marching for miles and even crossing the road. My altimeter watch read 8,500 ft in elevation. The skies here must be incredibly clear at night. I was passing through a very remote area very sparsely populated. Unlike The Trinity Site, this place gave off very good vibes and until my medical problem hit, the whole area of the continental divide had a positive feeling for me, anyway. I feel in love with the land. High mountains, wild, striated cliffs and buttes.

If they had to blow up an atom bomb, better that high desert scrub at Trinity Site then a beautiful area of the state. I love the part of how when we "pushed the button" the designers themselves and the greatest minds humanity could produce were not certain that this atom bomb would set off a literally world destroying chain reaction - a real dooms day device. And we hit that button, dammit man that means something, not saying something bad even - but that we are a creature that will always push that button!