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> On May 24, 2014, at 2:05 AM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Quite a few of you remember what was going on at this time on > the Texas caving scene in May of 1994. I was just an observer, > although I did go on one or 2 road-trips to Bracketville, from Houston. > > 2 cavers were very hard at work finishing up one of the best books about > Texas caves, and lots of cavers were assisting them. > > Another caver was planning an incredible show recreating the battle > of the Alamo. > > Swamp coolers were being installed by volunteer cavers that had travelled > from all over the state to one of the non-air-conditioned buildings at > Fort Clark > and caver-electricians were having to gerry-rig the whole set up. > > Cavers were visiting caves in and around Bracketville to plan for convention > trips. > > The 1994 NSS Convention, was a major event in my life. It was my > first introduction > to the NSS. Prior to that, I was > personally spending most of my spare time south of the border. And > after that, > I made an effort to attend future conventions, and thus had less > resources available > to go on trips south of the border. > > > On a related note, > > "It was not just a different time. It was a different world." > > All of that hard work was done without Cavetex, texting, and > smartphones, and Facebook, etc. Any cavers that had a computer were > using Windows 3.1 and saving their work to a floppy disk, and not on a > laptop. I bet typewriters were still being used by some. Gas only > cost about $ 1.10. On the world newsfront, Monica Lewinsky had not > yet met Bill Clinton, and the world ( not me ) was still anxiously > awaiting news updates over the Clinton scandals of Whitewater and > Paula Jones. Most of us were spending less than 10 minutes a day on > the internet, if any at all. Most cavers still had > cassette-tape-decks in their cars. Quite a few of our caving friends > at the 1994 convention are no longer with us. I am certain none of > us could have predicted the tragedies that happened just a few years > after the convention. Here is a toast to them. > > http://www.cavetexas.org/rmiller/ > > http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/images/las_moras_springs_pool.jpg > > > David Locklear > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
