Monday, March 31, 2008 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
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Overlooking Rockhound at dawn, February 21, 2008
Today I arrived back at Rockhound State Park southeast of Deming NM to meet new Lazy Daze friends and visit for a few days before starting my long journey back east for the summer.
Rockhound as Lazy Daze central
It seems I'm back at an ongoing gathering of the faithful. Kate had mentioned Debbie and her new rear bath were here but I had no idea Chris and Frank The Rainbow Chasers would be here, and John too with Gypsy Rose. That makes 5 Lazy Daze clustered at the top of the park.
Fellow Lazy Dazers have been coming and going at Rockhound since the middle of February when Kate and Terry arrived. There seems to be a magnetic field around Cholula Red - Kate and Terry stay put while others come and go ( maybe it's Kate's bread). Kate's tally is up to eleven Lazy Daze now and I'm sorry I missed meeting so many of them while I was away on my expedition to Las Vegas visiting friends and relatives.
The Adobe Deli
Darn, these people are having way too much fun - I missed the repeat gathering of the faithful yesterday for the Sunday buffet at the Adobe Deli. But all was not lost. The gang decided to go off to get a burger for lunch today and I got to go too! Twice, in fact - it turns out burgers are not served at lunch and with all mouths focussed on Adobe Deli burgers there was no question but that a return at dinner hour was in order. A big cup of the Adobe Deli Onion Soup Kate raves about sure went down well too.
When you get out this way, keep the Adobe Deli in mind.
Night camp
Site 27 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Find other references to Rockhound on this website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Go to the Rockhound State Park website
- Get a Google map of this area
- Check the weather here
Five Trillion Spiders
Spiders begin their hunting with a few handicaps. They're often smaller and weaker than their prey, and they have no wings to give chase in the air. Some species extend their legs by hydraulic pressure, using the same liquid that carries oxygen from their lungs, so they have a hard time running and breathing at the same time. Even their poison may be no match for their victim's: a crab spider's bite is to a honeybee's sting as "an air-gun compared with an elephant rifle," John Crompton wrote. Yet spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.
From Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker magazine, March 5, 2007, page 69