Thursday, February 26, 2009 - Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus NM
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Afternoon on the rocks, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, February 25, 2009
Today I moved down to Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus NM for a few days. I needed to run into Deming for supplies and perhaps more importantly I needed to find a dump station and dump my waste tanks. There is no dump station at City of Rocks. Also, the good internet access I was enjoying at City of Rocks became spotty the last few days. It was time for a change.
Night camp
Site 29 - Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to the Pancho Villa State Park website
- Locate Pancho Villa State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Over Fifty
Some of this has been painful for me, but it's all been wildly instructive. And it convinced me that nearly every person over fifty should try to find a time to sit down and engage in the same exercise, even if you never intend to publish anything. You need to think about what really meant something to you. Who did you really love. Who really made you what you are. What the seminal events did. And also it's an incredible discipline. Because I found it shocking to me what I remember and what I don't. It's shocking to me what I can remember factually and how hard it is for me to be absolutely sure about how I felt at the time. You know, how did I feel when I was 16? I don't really know.
Bill Clinton, on writing his memoir, in an interview with James Fallows, the Atlantic Monthly