Why is elephant Butte state Park so crowded? It's still pretty chilly here.

At least there's more than one pic to click today.

One of the marinas at Elephant Butte Lake as the sun was rising.

I went to Walmart and picked up a few groceries. I've noticed that every time I go to Walmart now, my bills are over $100, which used to be considerably less than that. Maybe I'm buying more stuff? But that doesn't seem right; I don't have much storage space, so I should be buying less stuff. I guess everything has increased in price, and even Walmart has to charge more.

I filled up with diesel today at $5.20 a gallon. That's not as high as it was back in Colorado, so it's tolerable, and I don't see any sign of diesel shortages yet. However, I still don't know what to do if it becomes hard to find.

I'm just guessing that if there's a problem with diesel fuel, maybe it will be like when Jimmy Carter was president, and he gave us the worst gas crisis in my lifetime.  The price will get higher and higher. Then, the gas stations will start rationing the gas and not allowing you to fill up boats and RVs, giving priority to the people trying to get to work. And then when they run completely out of gas they close the gas station. I don't know if that's what they would do this time, but I survived it then; so I guess I can survive anything else they do.

There seems to be a lot of people camping here at Elephant Butte State Park, at least more than I assumed there would be. But I don't recall ever being here this time of year before. Normally I would be in the desert south of here, where warm temperatures during the day and good sleeping temperatures at night would be normal.

It seems to me like it's still too chilly here at the Elephant for people to be hanging around, why aren't they in the desert now? I wonder if folks are here for the Thanksgiving holiday. I know they're not here for the beach; the beach was empty yesterday because the waters were too cold to do anything but fish. Maybe, like me, they are here to hole up for the holiday and avoid the crowds in southern Arizona, where the weather's much warmer.

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As I was walking around on the beach as the sun was coming up I could tell from the cloudless sky there wasn't going to be a nice sunrise. But despite the lack of fanfare, the sun still managed to crawl up above the mountains and start warming things up on this 20° morning.

This is the original place I boondocked yesterday but the trees were blocking up some of my sun yesterday so I moved over little bit to get away from the trees.