Oasis State Park, Portales NM

Sunset, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, October 30, 2011

Situated 6 - 1/2 miles north of Portales NM off NM 467, Oasis State Park is a modest park set among cottonwood trees and shifting sand dunes on the expansive, grassy plains of east-central New Mexico, not far from the Blackwell Clovis site.

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

Nights I've camped here

People are Themselves

I hadn't realized before I wrote "Are You Somebody" that I for one need constantly to relearn a simple thing - that I do not understand other people as they understand themselves. Rob's reaction, and much more importantly, Nell's, made me understand that I am one person and other people are themselves, and not what I have decided they are.

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain

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