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Descriptive Essay: A Trip To Clayton New Mexico
In the Summer of last year, me and my sister traveled all the way out to Clayton, New Mexico, with our nina and her husband. We were traveling in a very shiny, large truck on roads far off from any store or even telephone poll. The air was so clean and full of the unknown flowers scents. It took almost a whole day to reach Clayton but the long journey was worth it because we saw so many cattle, horses, and even a great lake shining the sun’s bright, warm, and soothing light back, the lake looked like diamonds rolling against each other very smoothly and slowly. When me and my sister reached Clayton I could tell that it was a small community with local stores and a couple of big company stores such as Verizon and Sprint. The air here was …show more content…
The trip was quite fun because the mountains we were by were smooth while being very massive in size. The day was sunny at start but sooned became cloudy and grey I was worried that it would rain and we would have to cancel but that wasn’t the case. When we approached the lake it was massive very massive with little waves right behind each other while the smell of the open and the lake were all around me. The lake was beautiful while fish were jumping out into the air and splashed right back into the diamond lake. When I saw this I became so excited and was filled with joy. It was cloudy and breezy but the air around us was warm and soothing like being right by a fire on a breezy day. I quickly setup the equipment and grabbed my fishing rod, acquired the bait and started to fish. While I was fishing my Nina and her husband set up right by the edge of the ramp and me and my sister were set up on the side. The dog was right at the edge and about to fall of the ramp but he just stood there staring into the endless darkness of the lake. As i was enjoying the air I felt a tug on my rod and instantly knew There was a fish at the end, I instantly started to reel in my line a was struggling just a bit, the fish was also struggling and it was determined by who had the most stamina. I reeled in my line and there was a mid to large sized fished on the line and I felt proud that I caught my first fish of the day. After a hour I caught 4 fish and felt proud of myself for actually staying a whole day outside and having fun. We decided to head to the house when it started to rain. When we arrived at the house it was already turning night so we headed in but before we did that my Nina showed me how to gut a fish, even though it was disgusting it was informational. After that the rest of the stay was very relaxing and pleasent and was glad to travel there for half of the

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