Monday, January 12, 2009 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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Prickly pear, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM, January 8, 2009
I want to get this thought down before I lose it
To paraphrase Groucho Marx: Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read except on an iPhone.
Or iPod touch in my case. Love it. Especially while boondocking - no external light source needed, unlike the Kindle or Sony reader.
I'll have to come back and expand on this. Thanks to Nick Russell for the tickle on his blog this morning.
Night camp
Site 7 - 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
Roses
Out by the road on the far side of the house is a wild rose bush. It's mostly thorns. We never water it or cut it back. It just lives on its own. It makes tiny yellow roses that never relax. I think the buds know that opening up is the beginning of the end.
The Box Children, Sharon Wyse