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 ==== Trip To Fermilab ====
 
 Refer to the [[http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/map/site.html | Fermilab map]]
-My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab "village", surrounded by
+My friend lives in a coed apartment in the Fermilab village, which is
+surrounded by buffalos and various other animals, little lakes and bike paths.
+Indeed very pretty.
 
 On Saturday, I took a guided site tour, starting from the museum.  They
 have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts and really working
 equipment such as scintillators and Geiger's counters.
 
 Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
-
 The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
 that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old
-science fiction movie!
+science fiction movie.  You know, like Frankenstein or Buck Rogers: with giant
+Tesla generators, panels with flashing lights and indicators...Buck Rogers
+The continuous buzz reminded us that the proton beam was shooting through
+this long corridor next to me.
+
+Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
+The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
+with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
+
 
 FermiLab is no doubt the most amazing place in the world: