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
Beware of Hypnotic Media
To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be. They have planned a life for you — from the cradle to the grave and beyond — which it would be easy, fatally easy!, to accept. The least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist’s command. Wake up, wake up — before you sign that seven-year contract, buy that house you don’t really want, marry that girl you secretly despise. Don’t reach for the whiskey, that won’t help you. You’ve got to think, to discriminate, to exercise your own free will and judgment. And you must do this, I repeat, without tension, quite rationally and calmly. For if you give way to fury against the hypnotists, if you smash the radio and tear the newspapers to shreds, you will only rush to the other extreme and fossilize into defiant eccentricity.