NVO Team Meeting, Nov 2004

Socorro, New Mexico

The plaza

Barber's shop and chamber of commerce

More plaza

Relic from Trinity

East end of Plaza - the local watering hole

A little north of Plaza - Socorro Springs, the one vaguely yuppie restaurant

San Miguel Mission

San Miguel Mission

This undistiguished side street...

.. is the Camino Real, the Royal Road. This is part of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the 16th-century Royal Road between Mexico City and Santa Fe.

Garcia opera house

Garcia opera house - 1887

Socorro: Looking west from the Holiday Inn

Zooming in on the distant western peaks

Panorama from west to north, from the Mission

Zoom on distant peaks in the far north (extreme right in panorama, behind car)

The nearby hill, west of the town

California Street - strip mall hell with no redeeming features. This was all I saw on my first trip to the town; on this trip I was surprised to discover there was actually more.

California Street - to the north

The Holiday Inn

Looking east to the big mountain range, from the south end of California St.

Residential Socorro - lots of low, boring buildings

VLA Array Operations Center at New Mexico Tech

The VLA AOC

The VLA AOC

Lunchtime for Team VO

Rio Grande Valley seen from I-25 near the airport

Albequerque seen from I-25 near the airport

Albequerque seen from I-25 near the airport