I just had my first Craiglist ride offer. I had to turn it down. It was a cheap ride to Little Rock. I hope I do not regret that.
For me, the NSS Convention is a unique event. In the real world, I never call encounter people like me. But here, there are lots of people far crazier than me. There is one guy obssesed with gating every cave he finds. Another who sculpts amazing tiny diaoramas. Just getting a selfie with Ernst Kastning or Mark Minton is worth the trip. And The Howdy Party is the second best party on Earth. And the best party one can do on a 3 day weekend. As for me and Mallory's intimate questions. Many of my friends are here and some of my unknown future potential friends are here. I hope or desire to be active in the NSS someday, so it seems imperative to be here. My elderly Aunt lives in Hot Springs and she is going into a nursing home soon. My estranged-biological father and half-sister live near Mansfield. I go there for a one hour visit, every other year, when I have no other option except to jump off a bridge. They despise anything related to caves and non-fundamentalist way of thinking. Meaning for them, they adamently firmly are convinced that the Devil used his divine powers eight-thousand years ago to create caves and eventually cavers. D.L.
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