Thursday, January 10, 2008 - Alpine TX
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Oil field supply companies have lots of new tanks and equipment in stock. Trucks are carrying oversize loads of fancy equipment about. The t(h)reat of $100.00 per barrel oil seems to have lit the entrepreneurial fires in these parts.
Today's journey
US 67 from San Angelo, Texas, Texas to Alpine, Texas.
Night camp
Pecan Grove RV Park, Alpine TX
Pecan Grove RV Park, Alpine TX
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups and a laundry.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here but I don't remember how strong the signal is.
- Find other references to Pecan Grove
- List the nights I've camped here
- Get a Google map and Street View of the park
- Check the weather
Normal Damage
Personally, I've never been normal. But what I've only recently discovered is how much damage being made to feel I should be has done over the years. This is a revelation of the highest order and unspeakably liberating, once you've processed the accumulated side-effects.
from a Grack column by John H Farr, August 25, 2003