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Thursday, January 31, 2008 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Setting up, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordon New Mexico, January 30, 2008
Setting up, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo, New Mexico, January 30, 2008

We like serendipity

I had planned to leave Oliver Lee yesterday, pick up the replacement for the compromised credit card a friend so graciously forwarded to me to General Delivery at USPS in Alamogordo and head westward once again. But I couldn't confirm online that it had arrived on time and since I didn't need to leave on any schedule, I signed up for one more night here and took a nap. We like naps too.

In time I opened my eyes and what should they slowly focus on way out beyond my toes, filling the aperture of the windshield - two horizontal red stripes. Could that be the rig I think it is?

I think that's Skylark

Yep, that's Skylark. Skylark is a well known Lazy Daze RV, home of Andy Baird, moderator of the Yahoo Life With A Lazy Daze RV discussion group. Andy is the guy largely responsible for my being here today and it's about time he knew it.

We like serendipity.

That was yesterday

Today Andy's friends Kate and Terry pulled in with Cholula Red and set up across the way. I may be here for a while.

Night camp

Site 8 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Others Choose the Path of Healing

The labor camp in Erfurt and, after the war, the refugee camp in Mainz were all I knew when I came here [from Germany] in 1947 at the age of seven. Like many camp survivors, it was not the experience itself that dogged me as much as the why of it. The why seems clearer every day: those who see themselves as victims, nations included, have license to commit these things. Others choose the path of healing.

Michael Guran, architect, in Jesse Monongya, Opal Bears and Lapis Skies by Lois Sherr Dubin

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