Like a fat hog slowly sliding through an anaconda

Clicking the pics requires little or no effort, and a minimum level of education... That's why I excel at it.

I can relate to this tree, it reminds me of how my back feels when I wake up in the morning.

Since my hitch is up here at the Fairgrounds Monday morning, I was checking the two places where I wanted to spend some time: Rock Hound State Park in Deming, New Mexico, and City of Rocks State Park near Silver City, New Mexico.

I've always just driven to those places without reservations, and they either had a spot for me right away, or I might have to wait a day or two in overflow for a site to open up, but the point is it was never a problem getting to stay in either one of those places. But checking up on their empty campsites last night, it appears that I'm going to have to have some kind of a reservation because they're full when I wanted to be there.

I had a feeling it was going to get like this, and I dreaded it. Making reservations where I want to go takes the fun out of showing up whenever I feel like it and having a space available, which has been pretty much the way it was my whole life, and now having to deal with reservations, schedules, and deadlines takes away a lot of the freedom that I love.

I guess that means that if I want to continue living the way I enjoy, I will have to be a better boondocker and have more places available where I can boondock. And that's what I'm going to have to do because I can't see the crowds at state parks getting any smaller, if nothing else, they will probably increase as more and more campers have more and more problems finding a place to camp, a lot of them will be turning to boondocking which will bring more government control, rules, and regulations, and of course, fees.

Oh well, as every Baby-Boomer knows, our whole lives have been lived within a large glut of humanity as we slowly pass through the social system like a hog through an anaconda, always dealing with overcrowded schools, overflowing hospitals, and freedoms that everyone used to appreciate have been slowly removed. So it should be no surprise that RVing, being largely an old geezer endeavor, would be affected by too many RVers, competing for too few camping sites and, in doing so, inadvertently driving up the prices for everyone.

Theboondork

It must be tough being a dressage judge. The horse slowly walks around the arena.... Slowly, ever so slowly, and the judges have to decide if the horse is walking slow enough. The only thing tougher than being a dressage judge, is being a dressage spectator.

There's a lot of maintenance activity at the rodeo arena, and that usually means something is going to happen soon.

Everyone likes to have their picture taken.

A dressage horse, practicing walking slowly while looking in another direction. People with cell phones get very good at this.