My Last day at the Bosque Del Apache
It's been a while since I looked at my calendar, but a quick glance showed me that the Thanksgiving four-day holiday is coming up. And I didn’t consider how close it was to Thanksgiving. I'm supposed to leave the Bosque on the 27th and head somewhere else. And it really didn't matter to me where as long as it was South into warmer weather. But realizing that a holiday is coming up, I figure I need to leave here on the 26th, so I won't have to arrive wherever I end up on the day before Thanksgiving when everybody in America is on the road and heading for grandma's house.
I'm sure now I want to go to Elephant Butte State Park because they have almost endless boondocking spots, so I won't have any trouble finding a spot for the holiday. On the way to the park, there's also a Walmart I have to drive by where I can buy my Thanksgiving dinner.
Elephant Butte State Park is one of my favorite places to be, partly because of its beauty but also because of the boundless boondocking opportunities. After all, how many places can you boondock on a nice sandy beach? Yes, I know there are some places on the Texas and Florida Gulf Coasts where you can boondock on the beach, and I've been to two of them, but a whole lot of rust followed me home, which doesn't happen on a freshwater beach.
So it looks like I'll pull up stakes on Tuesday and drive the 50 miles to Elephant Butte State Park, where I'll hunker down until the holidays are over and then figure out where and when I'll go from there.
Theboondork
Sandhill cranes flying into the sunset.
Snow geese doing what Snow geese do.
These rare New Mexico blue-bellied spotted Puffins have disguised themselves as prairie chickens, believing that Walmart will put them on the chicken rotisserie where they can stay warm during the winter…… These birds didn’t come from the smartest eggs in the nest.
Four locomotives pass the campground. Many campgrounds seem to be built next to railroad tracks… and there are good financial reasons for that fact.
Snow Geese, landing approach.