So eventually they gave up on torturing me, and it was near dark when they drove me back to the Jemez National Forest. I decided to camp at San Antonio Hot spring, which gets a lot more campers than McCauley Warm Spring even though it is 4 miles from the paved road, but there is a very rough Forest Road that goes back there, and it was real nice that I ran into my hot spring friend David Eley, one of the hot spring regulars. As usual he had some beers and some weed and it was just awesome being high and free, and not dead. David Eley was a wannabe writer, who had a large well stocked camp, and he was spending the summer writing a book about the strange things that happen at hot springs, working title: In Hot Water. So he was thrilled to hear about my "near death" experience and said he was going to include it in his book. I've talked to other vagabonds who had similar ideas, one guy said he could fill a book with all the strange things that happen at Deep Creek Hot Spring in California, but as far as I know that book has not been written, just a lot of guide books about where they are located. Ironically enough David was killed by the Cookie Bandit later that summer, and he stole David's gun (see carrying a gun can be a real bad idea) and used it in a shootout with Sandoval County officers in 2009, in which the Cookie Bandit and one of the officers died. After camping at San Antonio hot spring for about a week I continued biking to Colorado and stayed at the 2006 Rainbow Family of Living Light gathering for over a month.  I returned to San Antonio hot spring in late August and there were Missing Posters of David Eley posted on the trees at San Antonio Hot Spring. I didn't think anything bad had happened to him, he was a real free spirit and I thought he was just hiding out at some other Western Hot spring. It wasn't until after his gun was used to kill a police officer in 2009, that the police conducted a thorough search and found his body.  As I was now biking South back to Albuquerque, I was surrounded by 3 cop cars, once again in reference to the Jemez Mountain cabin robberies. I was pretty upset this time, "I'm not the Cookie Bandit!"; I was yelling, "why don't you do a little detective work, stake out the hot springs, I heard his name is Henry" (when I told David and other people what happened to me, some of the other regulars told me about this guy Henry who hung out at the hot springs and mooched off people.) . They probably didn't even check it out, it turns out Joseph HENRY Burgess was on the FBI most wanted list for killing two people at a hot spring in Canada in 1972.

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