Santa Rosa Lake State Park, Santa Rosa NM
Morning at Site B4, Santa Rosa Lake State Park, Santa Rosa NM, May 10, 2012
Santa Rosa Lake State Park is located on the shores of a Pecos River Reservoir about 7 miles north of Santa Rosa NM. This park offers quiet camping among the junipers and boating and fishing in the reservoir.
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
Nights I've camped here
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - Santa Rosa State Park, Santa Rosa NM
- 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... Image: Morning at Site B4, Santa Rosa Lake State Park, Santa Rosa NM, May 10, 2012.
A Voyage and a Harbor
The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.