Last day at the Elephant
I'm pretty sure I'm going to head to City of Rocks State Park tomorrow morning. I always look forward to being there. As I've mentioned before, it is one of my favorite places to walk around in, thanks to all the boulders.
I've also learned something that I never knew about the City of Rocks. I was recently informed that if the park is full of campers, you can use the group camping areas as overflow for regular camping if there are no groups using the group area. But apparently, they just tell you they're full unless you request overflow camping.
Since I walk more at the City of Rocks than I do in other places, I'm hoping that might encourage me to make a video of myself walking amongst the boulders. But don't hold your breath; I've been thinking about doing that in every place I've stayed since I left Denver.
Since this is the last day of the Thanksgiving holiday, I think I can say that Thanksgiving is not a holiday where people go to the state park. There are fewer people here today than I would see on a normal weekday, let alone a Sunday, so I guess Thanksgiving is a going-to grandma's house kind of holiday.
Leaving here, I need to stop and get one of my propane tanks filled, and I should stop at Walmart and pick up a few groceries since the Walmart in Silver City, New Mexico, is about 20 miles from where I'll be staying at City of Rocks.
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This is why I don’t drive on the beach at the Elephant Butte state Park. If you look in the center left of this picture you can see a tiny truck driving along the beach.
He hadn’t gone far when the giant sand worms reached up and grabbed his truck and pulled it down into the sand. The unfortunate driver has now resorted to picking up rocks to throw at the giant sand worms and put under his tires to get some traction.
if you look at his tires there fairly knobby off-road type tires and you would think wouldn’t get stuck in the sand.
Oh the humanity! The driver has now resorted to putting rocks under the tires but will do little good considering how far he has to go to get out of the soft sand.
Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of how this ended. When it got dark I could see his emergency flashers on so I knew the truck was still there, but when I got up this morning the truck was gone.... Probably eaten by the giant sand worms.
Now before somebody asks why didn't I help, these pictures were taken with a telephoto lens and he was at least a half-mile away from me.
My truck has ribbed Street tires and would get stuck in the sand long before his truck, especially when you consider all the camper weight on the back of my truck pushing the tires into the sand.
Plus I had nothing with me that would help get him unstuck, no tow strap, nothing to put under the tires, I was not set up for getting myself or anybody else out of the sand like I was when I lived in Miami. And I know the Rangers patrol the beach and would get around to him sooner or later, and getting careless people out of the sand trap is probably the biggest part of their job.
As I was outside taking some sunrise pictures this beautiful coyote ran across the boondocking area where I’m camped and I was lucky enough to get this picture.