Folks, I've been on the road. For the first time since I arrived this summer, I was eager to get back "home" last night. In addition to driving all over the Texas Mountain Trail region, I've been in Dallas at the Texas State Fair (meet BIG TEX on the left!) promoting Far West Texas, the Texas Mountain Trail, Big Bend National Park and Guadelupe Mountains National Park. I tell you what--it was a big rush to stand in that booth and have folks RUN up and say, "Ohhh, the Big Bend is my FAVORITE place on the planet!"
After a week of corny dogs and chocolate covered frozen key lime pie on a stick, I was home for a brief time, then off to Corpus for a travel conference. This proved to be infinitely more fun than CASE or BTDOC (for all you Foundation friends) -- folks seemed relaxed and happy! We heard about ways to encourage motels to adopt "green" practices, ways to calculate return on investment (yes, I'm still a numbers geek!), and finding funds for community festivals involving the running of turkeys down Main Street--now that's far more fun than managing "do not call lists" for telefund programs!
Will be posting more entries this weekend!
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