Albuquerque Trip, 8/2003

Albuquerque (Abqq) is pronounced aa-oo-boo-kurr-key.

Click here to see the marvellous Albuquerque Aquarium.
Unforgettable Calvary Chapel
We love printing presses
Visit to Abqq Natural Museum.
Visit to Abqq Nuclear Weapons Museum. If it were not for America, I would have grown up in Communism, my father could have been martyred for his faith. I felt grateful.
Click here to see our Santa Fe trip pictures.
Our visit to Taos.
Our visit to Durango, Co.

Some Family Pictures





Picture of an innocent chat from the heart with mother. Your Father in Heaven longs for this kind of chit-chat between you and Him.

Los Angeles Central Railway Station:

Every railroad station must have a tunnel to access all the platforms above ground, just as each airport must have long, long, hallways to access all the airplane berths.

I am always fascinated by railroad platforms, where the trains lie quietly like giant laviathans, and people under the lamp lights began to kiss goodbye, give longing parting glares.

This is the conductor of our railcar, called a "sleeper". He is like the captain or steward to serve all of us, open up our bunk beds and set up the mattresses. A very humorous fellow.

Jeremiah at Fullerton Station after we came back:

I believe this is either the Los Angeles River or the San Gabriel River. The latter starts from the San Gabriel Mountains, whose top peak, Old Baldy, is 10070 feet high, or so. It is famous because physicist Michelson put a mirror there to reflect the light from another mirror on top of Mt. Wilson, 20 miles away. This way he measured the speed of light. A glorious moment in the history of physics in USA.

Inside the Train:
We have a room, 7 ft. long, 45 inches wide, with two chairs facing each other. I am sitting on one, taking this picture, at night of the other. The dark window on the right shows another train. The ceiling above the window is 45 degrees steep. It is not part of the roof. It is the second bed if you pull it down. The first bed is formed by sliding both chairs towards each other. The little table in between must be flipped to the wall first.




This is the Lounge Car, with TV, and chairs facing the big windows. There are no luggage racks on top of you, so the windows go up to the middle of the ceiling, so you can see night stars or thunderstorms with lightning, The dining car is next to it.

Some desert scenery:

Albuquerque Court House.

At a food court in Coronado Mall.

From our hotel balcony, looking at sunset and storm clouds. We taught Jeremiah to watch lightnings for the first time in his life.


Beautiful sunsets.




These next 4 photos are from our trip driving back from Durango, Co., just 20 miles from Abqq.

Next day we travelled north 60 miles and here is Our Visit to Santa Fe.