Friday, February 1, 2008 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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Meeting new friends
The world of the Lazy Daze RV is a relatively small one. Lazy Daze custom builds only a couple of hundred rigs a years and while they've been at it for fifty years now and a high proportion of the rigs they have built are still going strong, that's still a very small proportion of millions (I'm guessing here) of rigs on the road so it's a pleasure meeting fellow travelers amongst this select group.
As I mentioned yesterday, Andy is the moderator of the Yahoo Life With A Lazy Daze RV discussion group. His dear friends Kate and Terry, traveling with their Lazy Daze, Cholula Red, are also well known in the Lazy Daze community. I'm delighted to finally get to meet these folks.
Night camp
Site 8 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
More Toward Realism than Fantasy
I've always been drawn more toward realism than fantasy, because it seems to me that realism is endlessly interesting and finally indeterminable. Realism is a species of fantasy that's much more integrated and hard-core than fantasy itself, but if you are ready to come to grips with the inevitable slipperiness of most available facts, you come to recognize that realism is not a direct approach to the truth so much as it is the most concentrated form of fantasy.
Birds and Lions, Norman Mailer, the New Yorker, December 23 & 30, 2002