Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - Santa Rosa State Park, Santa Rosa NM
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Morning at Site B4, Santa Rosa Lake State Park, Santa Rosa NM, May 10, 2012
Aaargh
Pulling out of the Flying C Ranch gas station off I-40 this afternoon I bounced over a bump a little too aggressively. Now I find stuff falling off the walls in the trailer. Aaargh...
I don't think any damage has been done but I have an hour or two's work ahead of me in the morning getting everything battened down again. Securing stuff adequately in a moving vehicle, even after all these years of trying, still eludes me at times. Bah.
Night camp
Site B4 - Santa Rosa Lake State Park, Santa Rosa NM
- Verizon cell phone and broadband service - fair signal if a bit slow
- Go to Santa Rosa Lake State Park website
- Locate Santa Rosa Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Hobnobbing with Brigham Young
The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.