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Roughing it

 Five days, four nights, camping.  I can cook while I’m out.  Judy wanted me to have something nice though, so we ended up cooking all day today.  Hamburger patties, grilled chicken, baby-back ribs, and chicken enchiladas.  All cooked.  All sealed in vacuum bags to go in the ice-chest.  Yeah.  I’ll be roughing it. We’ll be off even earlier than planned tomorrow morning.  There is a report of a Rufous-cappped Warbler in Uvalde.  A slight adjustment to our route and Uvalde is on the way.  Here is a map with our expected highlights marked: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205131835882428706345.0004beee640e2b7343d84&msa=0&ll=37.370157,-92.8125&spn=23.774538,56.90918 You can zoom in for more detail. I’ll keep in touch with Judy as phone connections allow, so if you want any updates you can check with her:  Judy@TaylorRoth.com (303-666-6018) to see how we’re doing.  She will be roughing it on the beach.  
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Exciting times

 Since we’ve gotten so good at working from anywhere, I’m not really ever completely away from work either… …except next week.  I’m going to be totally away from work.  On Tuesday I’m leaving for a birding trip to West Texas.  I’m going to tagalong with Jon, http://www.mcintyrebirdingtours.com  so it’s guaranteed I’ll see a LOT of birds.  We’ll bird Marathon, Big Bend, Fort Davis, and Balmorhea.  (We’ll stop and bird on the way there and back too.)  It will be a camping trip, so I won’t even have a computer with me.  There will be radio silence from Tuesday through Saturday.  I’ll mostly be out of cell phone range too, but I’ll check in with Judy whenever I can.  She’ll stay here at Gulf Waters.  I don’t know what’s up with her.  For some reason she doesn’t want to go bird for eighteen hours a day and sleep on the ground.  She’d rather stay on the beach.  Go figure.  
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One more SandFest Report

 These sand sculptures are three-dimensional, 360 degree displays.  I did a couple walk-around videos to show them from every angle.  Looking up into the sun I couldn’t see much of the viewfinder so it was hit-and-miss on keeping the camera pointed right at the sculpture, but here is a slightly different perspective from just the still pictures anyway. Horse-sitting.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=139PphADvQM …and the elephant one entitled “Where mermaids come from”.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llL76ZKTkLsThe two people in the middle of the sculpture at the end are the sculptors getting their pictures taken, haven just won 1st place.