Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - Socorro NM
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Bullock's Oriole, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, May 1, 2012
That's it, I'm outa here.
My three weeks is up here at Caballo Lake State Park and I have to move on. I'm only allowed three weeks at a time in a given park.
May is marching on and it's time to head east if I want to get back to Red Rock and off the road before Memorial Day so I might as well head out. Of course I'm headed north a bit first (can you feel my eastbound feet dragging?)to get my periodic fix at the Apple store in Albuquerque before actually turning east.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Socorro NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #5492, 700 North 6Th Street, Socorro, NM 87801 - (575) 838-1415
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone signal- very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband signal - very good
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood