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
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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
A Call to Nature
"About as far as from here to the station," went on Mr. Baca, "was a graveyard where the gang was supposed to camp out. I rode over to it and found where they had lunched the day before. There were {Begin deleted text}sardin{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}sardine{End handwritten}{End inserted text} cans and cracker boxes and one thing and another. Then I found where one of them had had a call to nature. I told one of my men to put it in a can. Saiz didn't know about this, and in a little while he went over behind some mesquite {Begin page no. 4}bushes and had a call to nature. After he came back I sent my man over, and by God it was the same stuff -- the same beans and red chili seeds! So I put Saiz under arrest and sent him back to the jail at Socorro with one of my deputies, although he kept saying he couldn't see what I was arresting him for."