Full Resolution With our cars now set, we head over to the US Embasssy warehouse to pick up our telescopes, which have just arrived into Bogota. After the telescopes are loaded up, we headed back to the Observatory to meet up with the local observers, and set up our equipment for a test run.
No photos of the warehouse, but it was a vast space, many layers high, stacked primarily with household furniture for employees of the US government (State Department, etc). Rows and rows of dining room tables, refrigerators, and end-tables. And then in the corner, locked in a cage, a big pallet of telescopes! My family and I have lived in State Department housing for most of the last decade, so I'm quite familiar with their furniture, but I'd never had a reason to visit one of their warehouses before today.
