At Cuatro Cienegas, we (the ladies) get to stay in a cabin at Villas Del Desierto. There are only five cabins there and ours are often the only occupied cabin there. We get housekeeping service everyday, which helps a lot on crazy field sampling and sample processing days.
Love the cabin porch!
The cabin is located near the edge of the town and during the nights, it can be super dark. It is so dark that we can see way more stars in the sky than I have seen before. In fact, Laura (the lab tech @ lab manager) and I saw a shooting star on the first night that I was here! We also do not have to worry about doing our laundry because we just drop it off at the laundromat and pick it up the next day! How awesome is that? Plus, it only costs 50 pesos ~ USD 5!Interestingly, if the laundromat is closed, we just have to knock on the door next door (the purple one) because the owner lives just next door!
CC is a very laid back town. In the afternoon, while walking around town, you will always see little kids playing on the pavement, parents and neighbors sitting outside to chat, and there is just so much sign of life out here. Simple life. They do not need a lot of the luxuries we have. All they have is each other. My favorite is walking by a house where the older couple who lives in the house will always sit in their porch on their rocking chair, just relaxing and enjoying each others' company. It is like in the movie Up!. Every time I walk around town, it reminds me more and more of the days in Bayan Baru when I was a little kid.
A typical house in CC.
One of the streets in CC.
Oh, how simple life can be.
But, all of us still have to check our emails and try our best to be on our regular work schedule. Lucky thing for us, one of the house that was rented for the guys, is owned by a hotel in town - Quinta Santa Cecilia. So they allow us to use their Internet.
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