Sunday, October 30, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
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Sunset, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, October 30, 2011
Eight days on the road
2,200 miles, 275 gallons ($920) = 7.94mpg ($0.42 per mile), down from about 8.75mpg without the trailer. Not too bad.
Night camp
Site 23 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - connection is reasonably fast.
- Go to Oasis State Park website
- Go to Oasis State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
More Toward Realism than Fantasy
I've always been drawn more toward realism than fantasy, because it seems to me that realism is endlessly interesting and finally indeterminable. Realism is a species of fantasy that's much more integrated and hard-core than fantasy itself, but if you are ready to come to grips with the inevitable slipperiness of most available facts, you come to recognize that realism is not a direct approach to the truth so much as it is the most concentrated form of fantasy.
Birds and Lions, Norman Mailer, the New Yorker, December 23 & 30, 2002