Friday, February 1, 2008 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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Meeting new friends
The world of the Lazy Daze RV is a relatively small one. Lazy Daze custom builds only a couple of hundred rigs a years and while they've been at it for fifty years now and a high proportion of the rigs they have built are still going strong, that's still a very small proportion of millions (I'm guessing here) of rigs on the road so it's a pleasure meeting fellow travelers amongst this select group.
As I mentioned yesterday, Andy is the moderator of the Yahoo Life With A Lazy Daze RV discussion group. His dear friends Kate and Terry, traveling with their Lazy Daze, Cholula Red, are also well known in the Lazy Daze community. I'm delighted to finally get to meet these folks.
Night camp
Site 8 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
Alex Can Spell
Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.