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Date:         Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:43:52 -0800
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      'Clown Around'
In-Reply-To:  <01BF4934.A69E9140@ip51.raleigh13.nc.pub-ip.psi.net>
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At 08:48 AM 12/18/1999 -0500, Bulley wrote: > > >We were in the middle of nowhere, literally. Those of you from Europe, or >who have never been to Texas may not be able to imagine just how FAR away >you can be from ANYTHING when you are in West Texas. There are places where >from the horizon on one side all the way to the horizon on the other, you >may be able to make out one light, one sign of life. That is where we were, >at 2:30 a.m. when we had to stop, and find the problem. > No kidding - just recently drove from San Antonio heading West to beautiful downtown Del Rio & lost tunes in the rental ~40 miles out: & I mean the just quit working; stopped & checked the antenna, fuses,...nuthin'. Didn't get sounds again 'til Del Rio. Almost as desolate as south eastern Oregon, or around Rachel, NV.

Austin


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