I had a foreign exchange student friend from Switzerland during High
School...He couldn't get his mind wrapped around the idea that we couldn't
just hop in the car and head out to LA for the weekend. I showed him
pictures of Kansas and Texas, and he said "Oh yeah, there's a place in
Spain that looks like that..." We had to get out an atlas, and show him how
big the Pampas of Spain were, and how big the Desert southwest and prairies
were. His only words were "I can't imagine...I just can't imagine that."

There's a lot of open space in this country. A lot of territory with only
you, and Clown Around.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Austin [SMTP:austins@IX.NETCOM.COM]
Sent:   Saturday, December 18, 1999 3:44 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        'Clown Around'

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