Day 10

Greetings to all my Jacobin-maniacs! First, I want to thank you for reading my journals in the last 10 days!  I may not be as interesting as the King of Rock N Rolla but I do hope you enjoy my journals which some were out of this universe. Today is the last day of the New Mexico trip but it’s KIDS CHOICE! What we did today was go bull riding…..just kidding we did something that was much better.   We all went to Santo Domingo Pueblo and saw Anthony who is the coolest man did in the history of the entire world!

Anthony and his family opened their home to us again today. Today was Anthony’s birthday. Anthony was taking us to Tent Rock and to show use Ruins that very few people outside of Santo Domingo Pueblo have ever seen. The road to get there was rough and I have to bow down to the fabulous Barbra for navigating the bumpy road. Anthony brought us to a trail. In reality it wasn’t a trail because Anthony was using his memories on trying to find the trail. Did I mention that the trail was up a mountain. The animals were more afraid of us and my non-stop talking scared the mightiest of the animals away.

Ultimately we did not find the ruins and it been over a decade since Anthony been to the ruins so his memory of the path to the ruins are foggy. Nevertheless, the hike was off the hook! We saw different animal droppings of Elk and Brown Bears and some were relatively fresh. If I had met a brown bear I would hope it be just like Winnie the Pooh Bear! Anthony asked us if we want to hear a story…..we said yes and we be impolite if we had said no. It would be better if you read the story for yourself so I don’t miss telling the story. Get the book, The Arrow to Sun which is very closely the same as the one told by Anthony. I enjoyed the story greatly.

We stopped by the Tent Rock area which we originally paid 5 bucks to see a cave we could not see due to time restraint. Many hundreds years ago a huge volcano erupted and shot rocks all over the area in some cases all the way to Texas. Needless to say, it made Mount Saint Helen look like nothing more then a powder-puff of a volcano! Due to the eruption it shaped the Rocks into tent like forms and big boulders were thrown on top of the tent rock mountain and the tent like shapes of the rock gives the area its name of Tent Rock. Tent Rock is a very humongous and beautiful area to see to the point of actually setting up a tent on top of Tent Rock to live.

On the way back to Santo Domingo Pueblo we experienced some extreme weather conditions. It down poured on us like a flood was dumped on us from the heavens. It was raining like cats and dogs to the point of some parts of Santo Domingo Pueblo Flooding. The roads were make ship river due to the rains. Did I mention the hail? It was hailing in New Mexico of all places. They were the size of dimes and it hitting the van so hard the we feared that the windshield would shatter.

We headed to Anthony’s mothers house to celebrate his birthday!  Once again his family opened there home to us and invited us to Dinner. The dinner was super great and the birthday cake and ice-cream was DELCIOUS! Then the amazing thing happened! Anthony’s mother brought her jewelry out. Then they gave use pottery and it was a very generous gift.  Anthony then brought us into his work shop to show us his and his son’s jewelry. The jewelry was very colorful and it was artistic in a very tasteful way. I was saddened to say goodbye to our good friends in Santo Domingo Pueblo but left happy knowing I have memories that I will carry to the day I become a wrinkle old grouchy old man of my former self.

Anthony’s family’s hospitality is unmatched in every way possible.  They opened up their house, their community, their culture and their way of life. They trusted us when we first met them as strangers and in the end we left as close friends. They were the most kind, upbeat, funny and the most electrifying family I ever met in my eighteen years and I bet my bottom dollar that I will not ever meet another family like theirs. That is one of a kind family.

Well I’m afraid my fellow Jacobin-maniacs that this will be my very last paragraph for On The Road due to the fact that I will graduate next year and can’t join on next year’s On The Road trip. I once again want to thank my loyal Jacobin-maniacs for following wacky journals. You guys have been my motivations for making my journals as entertaining as possible! I shared with you many stories of my journey throughout the New Mexico region. From my epic showdown with that menace Stink Bug to the beauty of the many national parks, I hope that I have shared my knowledge with you on the desert state and somehow even in the smallest way that I made you for even a second joined me on the trip. I thank you my Jacobin-maniacs. I also want to thank the New Mexico School for the Deaf for providing use a home for the past ten days.