OK, David, tell us who he was/ Is. On second thought, I'd rather hear more about the honeymoon. Fritz
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2016, at 2:35 PM, David via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > This is another long-winded reminiscing story irrelevant to current events. > > In October of 1986, the Texas cavers were holding their big annual gathering > on the Guadalupe River near New Braunfels at a place called "The Lazy L&L > Campground." > > http://www.lazylandl.com/ > > This was to be my second time at the event. I had been caving steadily for > 2 years. I was anxious to meet new cavers and learn new things. > > I was engaged at the time to a very beautiful, but very grouchy brunette born > in New York, but raised in Houston. She was around 17 years old, I think. > She attended this with me and camped out in the mosquitos under the stars > Friday night. Saturday night we pretended we were on our honeymoon at the > Prince Solms Inn. Anyways, her only other caving experience was off-trail > in Inner Space led by Mr. James Jasek. He took a nice photo of us near the > "Squid Room," but a year later, in our final meeting she poured gas on it and > all other of our shared mementos in a bonfire on my front porch and nearly > set herself on fire. Fortunately, Mr. Jasek gave us two copies. > > But all that is the side story to be dwelled upon in a future post. > > At that big caving event, I met a young hippie-looking guy with a very > pleasant demeanor wearing a really awesome caving shirt. It said something > to the effect of "Member of the Nita Nanta Connection." I asked him about > the shirt, and he told me the whole story and the significance of the > discovery and his role in the exploration. I was very excited to have met > a real world-class cave explorer. I had aspirations to be like him > someday, and so he was a big role model in my life. But the deck of cards > I drew, just didn't match that destiny. I still admire that guy today, and > always look forward to seeing him at major caving events. > > David Locklear > NSS # 27639 > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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