Friday, January 13, 2012 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
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Blowin' in the Wind, Say's Phoebe, San Antonio NM, April 15, 2010
Changing times
It's been a while since I fiddled with the design of this site and it's time I did. I was looking over the stats this morning and I was a little surprised to find about 20% of my visitors are coming this way on mobile devices now. I haven't been to happy with the way the site looks on a small screen - it's just too cluttered and hard to navigate. So it's time to see if I can simplify things a bit. First to go is the sidebar. That should give the content some room to expand and breathe a little. What else should I do?
Now to figure out a navigation scheme to replace the sidebar...
Night camp
Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
- This is a spacious 65 site campground with most sites offering full hookups.
- Locate LoW-HI RV Ranch on my Night Camps map
- Verizon cell phone - strong signal
- Verizon Broadband - strong signal but often slow
- Check the weather in Deming NM
A Voyage and a Harbor
The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.