Friday, February 1, 2008 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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Meeting new friends
The world of the Lazy Daze RV is a relatively small one. Lazy Daze custom builds only a couple of hundred rigs a years and while they've been at it for fifty years now and a high proportion of the rigs they have built are still going strong, that's still a very small proportion of millions (I'm guessing here) of rigs on the road so it's a pleasure meeting fellow travelers amongst this select group.
As I mentioned yesterday, Andy is the moderator of the Yahoo Life With A Lazy Daze RV discussion group. His dear friends Kate and Terry, traveling with their Lazy Daze, Cholula Red, are also well known in the Lazy Daze community. I'm delighted to finally get to meet these folks.
Night camp
Site 8 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
The Credential of the Dominant
The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.
The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001