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8/21/2023

a few old pics that you can click.

Bosque Del Apache, New Mexico. Taking a break from taking snapshots, pulled the Lance over and eating lunch...Yes the Arctic Fox has a lot more room than this, but look at the room I have when I open the door.

I figured out that I don't need a lot of room in my camper, I need room to sleep, I need room to cook, I need room to get out of the bad weather. And that's about it. Any other time, since I'm usually boondocked and not being sandwiched between neighbors in every direction I have plenty of room outside and can walk in any direction.

Home is truly where I park it.

Another day of dealing with the doldrums. I keep hoping something will come along to kick me in the butt and get me motivated, but today got up to 100°, and that certainly didn't do me any good; I had to open my windows and get my fans turned on by 9 o'clock when it started getting too warm in the Lance.

You may notice that I'm posting old pictures from last winter on my blog once again. At least there are leftover pictures I haven't posted before, but still, it means I haven't taken any new pictures because I don't have the ambition or the imagination to come up with something better.

These pictures of the Bosque Del Apache in New Mexico have made me want to get back there and take more photos. I enjoy being there, especially while living in the Lance. I was staying at an RV campground only a couple of miles from the Bosque, which allowed me to drive to the Bosque and stay there all day in the Lance.

That way, I could drive to different parts of the Bosque, it's a big place, take pictures of different things, pull off the road and eat lunch, and work on images on my computer; in other words living a normal life while being at a place as incredible as the Bosque, which would've been difficult to do while towing the Arctic Fox around.

There's no camping at the Bosque; technically, it's open from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. But I believe I've been there longer than that, and the gates were still open. During the peak, Sandhill Crane and Snow Geese watching season, the professional photographers get there very early in the morning to get a good spot to take pictures from, and I'm sure I've seen them there long before sunrise. But the point is, folks can't camp there, but I can spend most of the day there living in the Lance and only going back to the campground to sleep.

Looking at these pictures has brought back a lot of great memories for me, and that's usually not the case because I try to live in the present and not plan for the future or look back at the past. Trying to enjoy each day because the present is the only thing you can truly count on. But if I can't shake these doldrums, memories will be the only thing I'll be writing about.

Theboondork

Sandhill Cranes In the sunset, settling down in the water to sleep for the night, Bosque Del Apache New Mexico.

Sandhill cranes Bosque Del Apache in New MexicoPicture

Sandhill Cranes at the Bosque, New Mexico.

8 Comments

Linda

8/21/2023 05:17:43 pm

You reminded me of Tioga George who differentiated between day camps and night camps.

Tom

8/21/2023 06:49:20 pm

I remember Tioga George quite well. And since he was in a class "C" his situation was the same as mine with the truck camper. And since the only experience I've had camping as a full-timer was with the Arctic Fox and a couple of truck campers, to me having my home and my transportation in one place, all the time, just like a van. I much prefer having all my stuff in one place, and not having to leave anything behind while I drive somewhere else.... Even though I've never had the slightest problem while leaving the trailer behind.

I believe what I was doing at the Bosque Del Apache was what George would call day camping and night Camping. I would get up about daybreak and drive to the Bosque where I would make breakfast and then spend all day taking pictures. Then when it got too dark to take pictures, I would drive back to the campground to sleep.

I consider the few days that I spent doing that as some of my happiest, and plan on doing it again..... And I'm not even a bird person.

Tom

Judith

8/21/2023 08:02:11 pm

The bosque is a wonderful place to go and you can look forward to being there. This hellacious summer will end sometime.
I MUST think that. No change in sight for the next two weeks though, but one of these days.

8/21/2023 08:19:00 pm

I feel sorry for you folks in Texas, its starting to look like you've got the longest lasting heat wave in the entire country, and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight. It almost makes me feel guilty thinking about driving up into the mountains pretty soon just to get out of the Denver heat, which can't be very hot since I'm living in a camper and don't have enough electricity available to turn the air conditioner on....Yet still I complain.

Tom

Indigo

8/22/2023 04:58:59 pm

SHHHHH - we're trying to live in denial about this heat wave. Today it rained: hah hah hah. For less time than it took to write this sentence. The rain drops on the windshield didn't get get to connect. The "rain" smelled like really really old dirt. But it's a change, right? The temp dropped to 93*F, about what it was at 3:00 am last night. So please please please help us out and take more pictures of mountain streams and how cold they are.

8/22/2023 05:18:54 pm

I sure do need another trip to a cold mountain stream, I thought I could wait until September to take another mini-vacation but now I'm not so sure.

I can stand a lot when it comes to the weather, and that's a good way to be when you're a boondocker but 93° at 3 o'clock in the morning??? That's more than I could deal with, I would have to run away, run fast run far.

Tom

Larry Worsham

8/23/2023 05:13:48 am

I take full responsibility for the brief rain we had in Central Texas. Due to the drought my rain capture tanks were dry and due to concerns about fires I ordered and had delivered 2000 gallons of water. About 2 hours after it was delivered it rained. Most folks say wash your car to make it rain. Home car washing is not allowed so we can't make it rain that way. Ordering a water delivery makes it so. Tanks are full so I can't help call in the rain.

8/23/2023 08:30:27 am

When you have a drought as bad as Texas is having, you have to be very careful Larry, not only with car washing but rain-dancing or washing just about anything. Washing the car to bring on rain has always work for me in the past. I have also found that the amount of rain can be controlled by the size of whatever you're washing. I once pressure washed my house in Miami and two days later there was a hurricane that dumped several feet of rain in my neighborhood. I've often wondered what would happen if the harbor in Miami washed one of those giant cruise ships.

Tom

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