#newmexio

WARNING: The following details a very unplanned trip.

Hello!

The major update this week is that...

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 (this is a drum roll XD)

I went camping! 😁

Jemez Falls, New Mexico

Part of the Santa Fe National Forest.

Saturday

Drove out there Saturday morning. Stopped for Chick-Fil-A and supplies in Albuquerque. Don’t ask me why but we spent almost two hours here.

Made some stops along the way. Mostly to Google where in the heck we are going to sleep that night. (Spoiler, we don’t figure it out there)

Made it to Jemez around 5pm(?) Ended up finding a place to camp around 7pm. What happened in those 2 hours? I suggested a spot and this suggestion was disregarded. 2 hours later, we come back to the spot I suggested 😡 I will not be naming names. You know who you are.

We really went without a plan. All the official campgrounds were closed. Luckily, the one we found was really close to the Jemez Falls trail entrance.

Sunday

Wake up. Pack up. We head on over to the falls around 11am. (Pro tip: WATER SHOES)

The hike was sooooooooooo nice. Here we have forest, tall trees, rivers, water falls. Only 20 miles out, there was desert and red rocks. New Mexico be weird like that.

My friends, I cannot stress this enough, WATER SHOES! My friend, which can be seen in one of the pictures above, was trying really hard to not get her shoes wet. I had to carry her MANY A TIME. This is where she gave up 😂

THE FALLS WERE GREAT

I did not make this jump. No thank you.

The water was FREE-E-ZING.

So a couple of things. Last time I showered was the day before. Next real shower, probably Monday. Camping, setting up, tearing down, hiking. All these activities had made me filthy.

So I made an executive decision and got in the water. 😅

Had a great time. Then, time to go back!

Felt cute might delete l8r

We found a photo shoot worthy meadow. 

We really couldn’t stop taking pictures.

I mean, is this really necessary? 😂

I mean, I can’t even smile correctly.

Anyway, we head to our next destination! Which is another water fall about an hour north? Again, this was also decided on a whim.

Found a campsite close to the falls. We were starving and needed a food stop.

Sooooooooo, this campsite you see above was CLOSED. So, after consulting with a random guy in an RV (Dan?), we decide to break the law.

This is short lived. 😅 A gift from above in the form of a Park Ranger named Ben(?) tells us of a place 2 miles south we can stay at if we’re “looking for some place to not camp illegally.” Bless you, Ben, bless you :’)

The most beautiful campsite our eyes ever did see. It also had a great view. Forest all around, a quiet road in the distance, and the city of Los Alamos to the east.

The rest of the night was just blastin them bops, some journaling, some reading, but mostly listening to them bops and trying to sleep.

Bops can be reached through this link.

Song of the trip, don’t ask me why.

Monday

Picture taken at 5am because I’m a super early riser and not because I had been up since 3am trying to sleep 🙃

Long story short, we decided to not go to the falls and instead head straight back home. At that point, all I wanted was a real shower.

THE END

Miscellaneous trip occurrences:

Saw a dog in a face mask @ the spookiest Walmart I ever did see

All my clothes got wet so I had to wear the Nirvana shirt the whole trip (leaky cooler)

Teamed  up with a guy in an RV to stay in a campsite illegally, we left a note when the ranger corrected us, he found us later and thanked us for the tip! (Happy to confirm the was NOT an axe murderer)

Both nights, I was so spooked that I went to sleep clutching a pocket knife (Surprisingly effective stress reliever)

Había olvidado contaros que el otro día hicimos una huelga. Lo curioso es que la superintendente del distrito (la persona equivalente a la consejera de educación de la comunidad de Madrid) fue quien lo promovió. 

Resulta que Trump ha quitado dinero destinado a educación o sanidad y se lo ha dado a los militares.

La superjefa de las escuelas nos hizo una encuesta para saber como podíamos presionar al gobierno y el resultado fueron unas 4000 personas entrando en el capitolio (como si fuera el congreso) preguntando todos a la vez por la gobernadora.

Todo fue pacífico, había zumo y hamburguesas , y los policías repartían placas de broma entre los niños.

Un amigo vasco, me comentaba de broma si no íbamos a quemar nada. Para algunas cosas los americanos son más civilizados.

Sed buenos.