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
- Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Friday, November 19, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Saturday, November 20, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, November 21, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, October 30, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Monday, October 31, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
On Food and Freedom
Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.