My first couple of weeks working in the Santa Monica Recreation Area was a bag of mixed emotions. There was the heat wave that swept through the area. There was the idea of moving to the other side of California with just my car. There was the excitement of practicing my craft. This new experience while hard for someone moving out for the first time was exhilarating. I started off the week being thrown straight into archaeological work, by being able to survey a popular park within the Santa Monica Mountains called Circle X.