San Lorenzo and my car don't mix.

Okay, there is a moral to this story: never stop in a small stream bed full of silt and sand and WATER.

The idea was to enjoy our time out at San Lorenzo with fireworks. This turned out to be an entertaining night, mind you nothing influenced us. With that in mind, fireworks, a campfire, and hot dogs did the trick. Andrea, James, Fox, and Sam were part of the crew.

Next came driving back home. For some reason, I stopped and was wondering what was making this noise leak in the car. I stopped in the middle of the riverbed that had a small stream going on. Then it came to driving out. Well, sand, water, dirt, and everything in between got stuck half way up the front wheels. I had no traction and all the mud, rocks, and water was flying everywhere. Well, my left side of the car was stuck in a rut and my right wheel was left spinning. Oh crap. The back two tires were sitting high and dry and not in the small stream. I wasn't panicking, just needed to get the thing out. To top it all off, no cell phone service. That didn't want to stop me from getting out.

We used the jack and a board to jack up the tires and put rocks underneath. Then I decided to drive out to a nice area that wasn't full of mud. I think we lost Andrea's hat out there. We drove and drove and drove down the riverbed. I must have missed the turn-off AGAIN, because I remember telling Fox and Sam that we needed to prop up the broken down fence at the turn to the riverbed so we can get out. Thats where the fun began.

I kept on driving down the riverbed and without tire tracks or anything. I was, "eff this mess, I want to get out." We got through a couple of tight spots and everything. Then we saw this huge light, it happened to be a lighted billboard. We keep driving and found the freeway. We drove under the freeway and then got back on the side-road that goes out to Bernardo.

Sam was laughing histerically when we drove under the overpass. I was, screw it, I wanna get out and I wanna go back home. We stopped by the truckstop in Lemitar and pulled off the hubcaps and cleared out all the dirt, because on the road, my wheels were out of balance. That solved the problem by cleaning the dirt and then we got on the freeway to go back to Socorro.

Anyway, I'm back on campus. Thank GOD.