elephant Butte State Park, truth or consequences, New Mexico.

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I was happy to see that the lake levels are normal for what I'm used to. there's plenty of beach space available for boondocking, so the holiday crowds shouldn't be spilling over into regular boondocking areas. So I would say everything looks just fine and should be a great place to boondock for the holidays.

I will miss the Bosque; it's a great place to be if you like birds, or in my case, like to take pictures of birds. I especially like it during the off-season, like while I was there. There are no crowds, so you can stop and take a picture anytime you want. Yeah, all the birds aren't there yet, but there are plenty of birds for me, making me happy just being there.

But I'll be heading down to Whitewater Draw in Arizona one of these days, and there'll be plenty of birds there for me to take pictures of, and I can boondock right next to the lake where all the birds are... It's become one of my favorite places to be.

I left the Bosque Del Apache at about 8 o'clock and arrived in Truth or Consequences [ T or C to the locals ] about an hour later. I had to drive right by a Walmart in T or C, so I stopped in and bought a few things, filled up with diesel just down the road from the Walmart, and headed for Elephant Butte State Park.

 It seems I spend a lot of time at Walmart nowadays, but I'm afraid it can't be helped because my storage spaces are so small, and my weight caring abilities are so limited; instead of solving those problems, if there is a solution, I choose to shop more often.

This is no big problem since I don't normally boondock out in the desert 20 miles from a store. I normally stay fairly close to shopping; after all, I'm just living a normal life, and living a normal life doesn't mean driving 30 miles of dirt road to a store... Except, of course, in Quartzsite, Arizona, where a Walmart is about 35 miles away.

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This is Rattlesnake island, and Rattlesnake island is what I look at to determine Reservoir levels. if you look at that spit of land coming out from the left side of the picture, with a couple of large RVs Boondocking on the point, to me average water level in the reservoir is When that piece of land is a peninsula just like you see it now.

When the water is too high It covers that peninsula where the large RVs are setting, and a major part of the beach disappears. When the water is too low that Peninsula becomes a road that you can drive to Rattlesnake island on.

It's good to see folks boondocking on the beach just like normal. when I was here last spring the water level was anything but normal.

Boondocked in my favorite spot at the Elephant. I'm on top of a little hill overlooking the beach and the Marina. A great spot for sunrise pictures, all I have to do is step out the door..... Sunsets? Not so much.

It's feeling good to be back on the road again. It takes a little getting used to after being so well cared for in Denver. But I'm getting the hang of it again and starting to make decisions on where to go, and what to do, based on the weather, and not much else.