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Fort Stockton

Internet civilization. Great speed on the Verizon air card. Email and the world wide web as well! All the civilization we need.

We’ll stay here for a couple nights and make sure we’ve done everything we need with the internet to get us through the next few days. We’re headed off the map again on Sunday.

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Thursday

A better day today. I couldn’t do anything on the internet, but I could send and receive emails. I got caught up with correspondence anyway. If I couldn’t actually get the work done, I could at least explain why.

Cool morning. Warm day. We’re supposed to be able to get the Golden-cheeked Warbler here, but we took a walk today and didn’t get him. We did get to count 39 birds, though, including the Black-capped Vireo, Black-throated Sparrow, Green Kingfisher, Northern Bobwhite, Painted Bunting, Summer Tanager, Vermilion Flycatcher, Wild Turkey, Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Chuck-wills-widow.

Here is our camp.


Tomorrow, Fort Stockton.
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Wednesday

  The Ranger Station at Lost Maples wasn’t much for internet service.  We moved on.  We’re another 60 miles west.  South Llano River State Park.  We’re near the town of Junction, Texas, but haven’t quite reached internet civilization yet.   For all those years we had our own internet dish on the roof of the motorhome, but it broke and it would be really expensive to replace it.  We don’t need the internet dish at all as long as we’re around big cities.  This has been a test of how well we get along without the internet dish on the roof when we travel.   Love the traveling, but so far, from a connectivity perspective, it’s not going well.    
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Tuesday

  Still at Lost Maples.  I’ve worked on everything I downloaded before we left on this trip.  I’ve answered every email I can.  Now I need internet again.  I need fresh stuff to work on.   Took a morning walk and got the black-capped Vireo.  Didn’t get the Golden-cheeked Warbler.  We might be able to get internet at the Ranger Station.  If you get this on Tuesday, we did.    
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Monday

Went a little farther, but not much; another 175 miles. Lost Maples State Park west of San Antonio. One of our favorite places. Winding back roads all the way. No internet service. I’ll put everything in the outbox so it can go as soon as we stumble across internet service again.

A hot afternoon and a cool stream.

Eddie and Annie swam to Survivor Island.