Several times each year I drive from Colorado to Berkeley California (1300 miles) to work with Dick Lee and Hyun-Kyung Chung on what is known as warm dense matter physics. I drive so that I can take my bike and ride in the Berkeley hills in the evening and because I love the drive on I-70 and US-50 across Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. I think it's one of the nicest car trips in the U.S. This is the first time that I've ever taken pictures along the route and in Berkeley.
Pointing west on I-70 out of Denver with bike on back of car, as seen in the rear view mirror. (taken with cell phone camera)
Driving through Glenwood Canyon. (cell phone camera)
I stopped in Grand Junction for dinner with Carl & Wendy. (cell phone camera)
I camped atop the San Rafael Swell in the canyon country of eastern Utah.
Dry Sevier Lake in the desert of western Utah. Interestingly, it rained for 1000 of the 1300 miles of the trip back from California and this lake had a thin film of water on it.
The Confusion Range in western Utah just before a storm. (cell phone camera)
The town of Austin, Nevada in the basin & range.
Pointed west on US-50 in the basin & range, Nevada.
Pony Express trail, central Nevada. After 140 years the trail is still there.
Dry & salty Carson Lake east of Fallon, Nevada.
Entering California on I-80 and starting up the east side of the Sierra Nevada after 700 miles of desert. (cell phone camera)
Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada, California.
Lizzie & Dick in Berkeley. (cell phone camera)
Dick & Hyun-Kyung in the physics building, UC Berkeley.
Working on the physics of warm dense matter.
Equations for the physics of warm dense matter. (cell phone camera)
Fooling around: Sunim, Dick, & Hyun and the parking spot reserved for Nobel Prize winners.
Bicycling in the Berkeley hills.
Berkeley, San Francisco, & the Golden Gate Bridge from Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley hills.
The Rose Garden, Euclid Ave. in Berkeley.
