New Mexico Airstream Unit # 69
Glow In the Dark Rally – Trinity Site Rally
March 31, April 1 -3
Valley Of Fires Campground
Hosts: Tom & Barbara Stallings

• Thursday, March 31 Arrive: 4:30 Happy Hour – dinner on your own
• Friday, April 1, Breakfast & Lunch on your own – 5:30 caravan to “NO SCUM ALLOWED SALOON” for Dinner and live band
• Saturday, April 2, Breakfast on your own; 9 am Caravan to “Trinity Site”, lunch at either the Buckhorn or Owl in San Antonio for their famous Green Chili Cheeseburgers; 5pm happy hour and heavy appetizers, dinner on your own
• Valley of Fires is a BLM Campground and you can use your Golden Age/Access Pass
• Sunday, April 3, See You Down the Road, Or caravan to the 4 Corner’s Unit Rally at De Anza RV Resort, Amado AX – information attached







THE FIRST ATOMIC TEST
On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico desert. Conducted in the final month of World War II by the top-secret Manhattan Engineer District, this test was code named Trinity. The Trinity test took place on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, about 230 miles south of the Manhattan Project's headquarters at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today this 3,200 square mile range, partly located in the desolate Jornada del Muerto Valley, is named the White Sands Missile Range and is actively used for non-nuclear weapons testing.
Trinity Atomic Bomb Site
White Sands Missile Range, NM
Just two days a year, New Mexico visitors are allowed to visit the site of an historic event that changed our world. On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., the US Military uncorked the nuclear bottle, allowing the genie to escape. In the middle of the White Sands Missile Range, at nearly the dead center of New Mexico, it detonated "The Gadget", a 13 pound plutonium bomb. The explosion turned the sand into glass, shattered windows 120 miles away, and rattled the ground 250 miles away. Less than a month later, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and World War II came to an end. The Trinity bombing site, where that first test explosion occurred, is normally off limits to civilians. However, the military does allow visitors two days a year--the first Saturday of April and October.
For more information on Trinity Site view the following link: https://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/Trinity/Pages/Home.aspx
YOUR RALLY HOSTS; TOM & BARBARA STALLINGS; 505-298-8355; casacornice@hotmail.com