Oliver Lee State Park - Alamogordo, New Mexico

Thursday 12/30/10

When we arrived here Tuesday the only sites available were non-electric.  We prefer electricity but can get by with our two generators.  We checked on Wednesday morning and electric sites still were all full.  The decision was made to stay here anyway because it is so beautiful.  With the high wind warning out I spent the better part of the morning re-positioning the satellite dish and anchoring it down securely with chain and bungee cords.

Ellen was walking to the showers and discovered an electric site had been vacated.  We grabbed it, but had to pack everything up and move.  That required another couple hours to settle into the new spot.  With all the trouble we went through it was decided to just stay here for the rest of the week and hold off on Las Cruces until Sunday or Monday.

Short story is I ran out of time to post any pictures.  By the time I finished some personal online business and took the dogs on a short walk up Dog Canyon to get their paws wet in the stream it was too late in the day to get started on the pictures.

Today is to be the high wind event so it will probably be an indoor day with plenty of time to put up a few pictures.

First morning with above freezing temp outside but probably the only one until sometime next week as this cold front moves in and stays around awhile.