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"Henry Brownlee" <hfbrownl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> "Robert Melson" <melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> But you're talkin' waaaaaay east. I'm talkin' east of here, like
>> Midland-Odessa and Lubbock (TTI). 'Sides which, if we're a'gonna talk
>> coastal, then we gotta talk about the blue fringes on both the
>> Left and Right Coasts - and none of them know from nuthin', nohow.
>
> Simply Ole Bob,
>
> Glad ya dint include the Bottom (South) Coast in yer know nuthin' group!
No,
> I ain't talkin' bout the Rio Grande, but the Gulf of Mexico. Never been
to
> West Texas meself, but my brother and his wife (who lived most of their
> adult lives in Fort Worth and then Harlingen) said they were amazed by
the
> different country they found when they vacationed there one year.
>
> Henry
> Houma, Louisiana
> (and for the benefit of Fussy, USA)
>
Henri, mon ami,
(hmmm, wasn't mon ami a cleaning product?)
S'fur as I know, the Bottom Coast ain't no hotbead of
liberals, 'cept mebbe 'round N'orleans. But, seems t'me,
them folk been bought by the carload by the party whose
symbol is the jackass. But I'm gettin' off course, (and
will have to revert to regular speech to continue).
It's interesting to look at a terrain map of Texas and to
see the climate zones and the topographical features and
how they change from east to west and, to a lesser degree,
from north to south. As interesting, is to drive across the
state and to see the effects of those climate zones and
terrain/topo features: driving east from here on I-10, you
go from the Chihuahuan/Sonoran desert, to the Edwards Plateau,
to the Hill Country around San Antonio, to the bayou and
swamp country of the area around Beaumont and the TX-LA
border. It's truly fascinating. Side note: it's about as
far from El Paso to Texarkana as it is from New York to Miami.
Ah, well. Truth to tell, there's no place that isn't interesting
in one way or another, and a lot of places I'd love to visit,
either for the first time or again. I've been privileged to
live, work, play, grow up in some of those places and to visit
others, but the list keeps growing of places I wanto to see and
learn something of.
Bob
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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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