Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Clovis NM
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Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, Three Rivers NM, April 28, 2009
How to share my pictures
I'm beginning work on a way to share the many pictures I've taken here at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site and others I took at Valley of Fires. It may take a while to get my act together (what else is new?) but there is much to share.
Resting on the way to Clovis
On my way over to Clovis on US 70 a few miles east of Portales I stopped at a rest area for lunch and a break and realized there was a museum sharing the parking lot. How unusual to find a museum at a rest area. What's that all about? Well I'm sure you are all familiar with the Clovis archaeological site. Turns out it is right in this neighborhood in Blackwater Draw. Here we have the Blackwater Draw Museum run by Eastern New Mexico University.
Blackwater Draw Museum
The Blackwater Draw Museum displays artifacts and exhibits associated with the Locality No. 1 site. Over 13,000 years of site usage are described, from mammoth hunting to modern culture.
There is also a self guided tour of Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Blackwater Locality No. 1 is a National Historic Landmark that is one of the most important archaeological sites in the New World. This unique site documents and interprets the earliest Paleoindian cultures in North America. It is a research entity and used as a reference point for Paleoindian Studies in North America and the Southern High Plains. Blackwater Locality No. 1 is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This time of year it is only open on weekends - darn.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Clovis NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #821, 3728 N Prince Street, Clovis, NM 88101 - (575) 769-2261
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Extended Network reception ok
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Seldom exceeds dialup speeds on Extended Network
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Life is to be Lived, Not Controlled
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern.
.... Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? - diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that were to happen. .....Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.