Saturday, December 13, 2008 - Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

Okatibbee Lake, December 11, 2008, Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

This website has never been fully realized. Ideas for what I want to accomplish with it get half implemented, stuff gets patched, and it never really reaches a point where I'm happy with it. So I spent the weekend trying to make some progress. My new pages on Night Camps are coming together nicely. The Archives have been a real mess and I have some ideas to try there.

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Site 39 - Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

This is a quiet, well maintained COE campground with level gravel sites, reservoir views, electric & water
There is good biking on the park roads
Most sites are wooded so solar gain is limited for those with solar panels
Good Verizon cell phone service - Access is via Extended Network, roaming
No Verizon EVDO service - access is via the Extended Network and service varies from slow to barely useable
Find other references to Twiltley Branch
List the nights I've camped here
Check the weather
Reserve a site
Get a map

A Call to Nature

"About as far as from here to the station," went on Mr. Baca, "was a graveyard where the gang was supposed to camp out. I rode over to it and found where they had lunched the day before. There were {Begin deleted text}sardin{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}sardine{End handwritten}{End inserted text} cans and cracker boxes and one thing and another. Then I found where one of them had had a call to nature. I told one of my men to put it in a can. Saiz didn't know about this, and in a little while he went over behind some mesquite {Begin page no. 4}bushes and had a call to nature. After he came back I sent my man over, and by God it was the same stuff -- the same beans and red chili seeds! So I put Saiz under arrest and sent him back to the jail at Socorro with one of my deputies, although he kept saying he couldn't see what I was arresting him for."

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