Personal memory by Luis Reyes
2012 • Heroica Veracruz, Mexico
When I was seventeen years old, I went on a trip with my High School mates to Veracruz, Mexico, we decided to camp in a place near of a river. By the time we arrived there, we set our campaign houses, and we made a wood fire; we were really hungry so, we started to cook some meat and soup on the wood fire, because we brought some food from our houses, at that time we thought that we had a really good experience, but we never imagined what was going to happen next. When the night fell, we realized that the sky became to show us how beautiful it really is, I have never seen so many stars in my life, my friends and me just laid on the ground to appreciate all the beautiness of the sky. By the time we realized that we fell asleep out of our campaign houses we realized that all round us was full of mist, we laugh about that we all fell asleep and we started to pack everything again to continue with our way home.
Truebacarlos. "Nevado de Toluca, Milky way". Nevado de Toluca, Mexico. October 10 2015.
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