Highways in New Mexico

In a word, no. Very near Carlsbad is the country's only active underground storage facility for nuclear waste. A large share of the road that you have admired on this trip was upgraded to 4 Lane Hwy essentially as a bribe to New Mexico for accepting the facility.

The road transport of radioactive waste material is done in standardized squat cylindrical containers. If you see a truck on the road carrying two or three such things on what amounts to a flatbed trailer, you may have passed one.

Welcome to New Mexico, by the way.

For whatever reason, I enjoy the heck out of driving in New Mexico. Try to go there several times a year....just for the drive.

get your hands on some enchiladas New Mexico style with the egg on top, or two hand a Chili Cheese Burger. You have not lived until you experience Hatch Chilis!

ahhh man, your making me sick for some great food!!!! ROADTRIP

Red or Green?

It's worth a side or connecting trip to the Very Large Array of radio telescopes.

"Red or Green?"

CHRISTMAS....both.

Roasted Green Chili

Christmas is great on enchiladas

But Roasted Green for the Hamburger.......

Here is a picture of a fully loaded truck carrying three TRUPACT-II containers.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/NewsandInfo_images/WIPPtruck.jpg

You are most likely to see these on the roads connecting Los Alamos to Carlsbad, though they certainly come to Carlsbad from some other places. But they are not thick on the ground--for all the roads built anticipating them, I've only spotted one or two, and I live here.

Christmas is also great on Carne Adovada Stuffed Sopapias !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a beautiful state with magnificent scenery to see along the highways.Plus the attractions to visit.

I would not have known what they were. Will watch for them when I'm in NM from now on.

Some attractions are better than others. I stopped in Roswell and was a little disappointed. The UFO Museum was fine, for what it is, but I am glad it was not my real destination.

After that, I went down (literally) to the Carlsbad Caverns and found it unbelievable!!!!! I spent three hours stumbling around the Big Room - it's hard to watch where you're going when there is something to see in EVERY direction. I guess Mother Nature is a better designer than man or aliens!

And I didn't see any of the trucks.

Bandelier National Monument

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Acoma

Taos

Angel Fire

and of course, Old Town Santa Fe

On the way home from AZ. two years ago we stopped in Van Horn TX. for a few days and did a side trip up to Carlsbad. The cavern is just beautiful and the mountains around there are breath taking. We didn't see any of these trucks but a lot of power generating wind mills

With politicians having a hand in the allocation of public road building funds, nothing surprises me. (heh heh heh)

Ron

PK said, Bandelier National Monument

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Acoma

Taos

Angel Fire

and of course, Old Town Santa Fe
Been to all of those, (twice). I will add the Cultural Center in Albuquerque on Saturdays as well as Old Town there.
Bob from Illinois

I've spent the last few days in downtown Albuquerque and it is pretty well empty! There's hardly any trafiic - heck, I've only seen two police cars drive by and I'm only two blocks from the courthouse!

Travelled to Old Town and it was quite a site. The width of the streets in the area give you some idea of traffic; they probably couldn't get two wagons passing on some of them. And the old buildings are interesting - many made me feel tall!

Also the ice caves and the extinct volcano crater, Blue Hole, and the old west museum at Ruidoso.

I was kind of surprised when we went to Bandelier seeing the warning signs about the Bubonic plague.

As long as you don't feed the fuzzy little creatures or handle them, you'll be fine.