Magdalena and Socorro, NM

So right now I am sitting in El Camino Family Restaurant in Soccoro, NM. Its about 3:30 right now and just ate breakfast. I woke up at 6:30 am to a pool of water in my tent. It's actually been raining here for the past couple days a lot. The mountains are a stones throw away from where we are camping at and the clouds are COVERED by the clouds. Today Kate, Nicole, and I were able to do a load of laundry for $2.50.

Anyways, time to cover what's happened since the last time I updated.

Mark, Sarah, Marisa and I went to a natural hot spring near the Redondo campsite. It was about a 2 mile hike to get there but before we were at a waterfall that was only a 1/2 mile away. The hot spring was pretty warm but not boiling hot. All of us brought our shampoo and soap there to wash up (which was nice for a change), but haven't washed up since then. TREASURE YOUR RUNNING WATER!

However, besides the hot springs that day, on the hike back to the car we rescued a black lab retriever!!!! When we were leaving the hot springs, there was another group of people walking down with a dog that wasn't theirs...it just...followed them around...and eventually us too. On the way back I gave her some of my water and some food. We weren't sure though what to do though. Mark suggested we just leave it behind because we don't want to take it away from the area she knows. As we were driving though she was chasing after the car! So after a 5 minute debate we decided to take her in the car and ask the camp host what to do since there was to collar/tags on the dog. Unfortunately they told us that most people just dump their animals off in the park areas which made all of us angry about that because this dog lead us on the way back to our car- very obedient.



Later the day I drove back into Los Alamos to register for my summer classes at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. It's so weird to think that I have at least 3 more weeks left on this trip and before I know it I will be back out traveling again to Europe, this trip is already going by so fast! After registering, Kate and I went back near the Redondo site to eat with the rest of the group at Los Ojos. This bar/restaurant is where Brooks and Dunn filmed their first music video!

http://losojossaloon.com/V2.html

When the group was done eating most of us decided to take a "small hike" to an open area so Mark and I could do some more night exposures and here are a couple of images from that night