My first night of camping in over 6 years was a wee tiring. It took me a while to fall asleep, the morning greeted us with some bird of some kind that wouldn’t keep quiet, and dogs were barking non-stop. We stayed at Davis Mnts. National Park and it was loaded with visitors who brought crying babies and dogs and kids and all the fixins for a nice, long night of trying to sleep. That’s what I get for staying up until 2am the night before.

We visited the McDonald Observatory late last night for the star party. Through one of the smaller telescopes we viewed some stars, a star which had already exploded, and the moon. I wanted to see Jupiter but the clouds were out in full force for the first half of the night. The night ended after a staff guy educated us with the constellations and star patterns. We were able to see the big telescopes this morning and we got some good pictures.

Tomorrow is the Carlsbad Caverns and another big drive up to Santa Fe. We won’t have communication from tomorrow until we arrive in Las Vegas in a few days. So this’ll be it for now.

“Something,” typed Jonathan passionately.