Years later, as a college teacher i

Years later, as a college teacher in the United States, even the Cuban crisis of 1962, which could have triggered a nuclear Armageddon, was not real enough for me to postpone my geomorphological field trip, though I did remark to a colleague, as I piled food and water into the vehicle in preparation for three days in the desert, that I might return to a radioactive Albuquerque.