Storrie Lake State Park - Named for the man who began building the dam here. He had an agricultural project in mind, which never panned out, but it makes a nice fishing and boating lake. It's a nice campground, unusual in that there's a lot of boondocking area right around the shore of the lake. If we'd know that we probably wouldn't have reserved a full service site. No complaints with the site we have though.
There's plenty of room to walk dogs in the meadow or on the road, as well as water to play in, in the lake or above the lake in the Gallinas River, which isn't a very big river, at least currently. We had a nice romp in it yesterday.
It rained softly all night, which finally used up some of the heavy cloud cover and, now, on Monday, we can actually see the sky!
We off now to our next camp, and a quilt shop along the way!
Monday, August 21
We made it into Las Vegas (New Mexico) just as Thread Bear was opening. There's a fairly large parking lot nearby, and since we were so early there was room for Hubby to park the rig in the lot. It was a productive stop! Beautiful fabrics in this shop, and unique.
Another of those" long term" projects is a "postcard" wall hanging, so I bought a Las Cruces fabric postcard for that. We were there in the past, and I hadn't seen one of these. The postcard project is still percolating in my little pea brain and probably will for some time.
The shopping done we headed south through the flattest land we've seen since Nebraska. The shifting clouds were about the only scenery. We stopped in Ft. Sumner (Billy the Kid Territory) to see if we could view the partial (in this area) eclipse, but the clouds were too heavy. Our stop for the night is Oasis State Park.
We've been here several times before, and it's a good stop for the dogs as I can take them over the sand dunes at the edge of camp into a dry lake bed and let them run.
And run they did. The ran, and hunted, and chased each other, and ran some more. I gave them water twice in the 30 minutes or so we were on the lake bed, but it took them another 30 minutes back in camp to stop panting.
We have a nice pull through site (#23) right near the beginning of the trail that goes over the dunes, and several shade trees, so we're set for the evening. Our evening entertainment is the ever-changing sunset. Pinks and blazing gold all around. We may have missed the eclipse, but this makes up for it!
Previous posts on our two previous visits to this park can be found here , and they include details about several of the local museums and other points of interest, or you can click on "New Mexico" in the Topics section in the lower right hand column of the page and find more past posts.
A few more photos here
Tomorrow we're off to San Angelo, Texas!!!
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