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

I Mourn the World in Which I Live

And for doing all this I will hate myself. I mourn the world in which I live because for me there is no place unless I compromise. All I can do is gather up the shattered remains of my hope and love and in the debris of the world keep at least one small blaze of poetry burning....

an anonymous participant in one of Murray's Harvard psychological stress tests in the 50's, also undergone by Ted Kazynski

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