I am skipping 2 or 3 post for now, to write this one:
About 6 pm, the caravan of hot-tub workers pulled out of the campground after a long day of busting their ^%s. They looked short of volunteers. I began breaking down my camp, and 3 others that I still had up. ( Actually, Justin had done one of them for me while I was in San Antonio. ) A remaining caver, Paul, from Virginia began taking photos of the empty campground for his his personal memories. He planned to tour San Antonio on Tuesday before heading home. I walked around camp picking up about a 1/2 of a garbage sack of litter - mostly beer related paraphernalia. Why can't the beer drinkers pick up after themselves? Maybe we should add a beer-drinking fee? Or give the non-beer drinkers a discount ? Over at the pavilion, there was a broken beer bottle on the floor and a table covered in sticky food from the Sunday night party. Dozens of chairs and tables were scattered across the pavilion. I left them like that. Paul headed to San Antonio, leaving just me and the contractor who was loading the giant water-cooled fans from the pavilion. I asked him if he needed anything. He left at 6:30. I thoroughly checked 100 sq feet around my camp and left it far cleaner than it was when I arrived. I presume every caver cleaned their camp area, but I was not about to hike the whole campground. The orange fence and post were still up around camp along with the signs saying campus closed. There was one porta-potty still at camp and the giant dumpster full of trash. Bob Cowell's shower stalls were still there, and I presume somebody is coming to tear it down in the next week or so. Not me. I drove around campus and couldn't find a single human or animal. It looked like a ghost town. Pool was closed. I don't know if any cavers were still in their rooms, but it didn't matter. I was heading home. I stopped off at Brink's Crossing on the Guadalupe River for a quick dip before driving non-stop to Arcola, arriving at 1:45 am. Tuesday morning. David Locklear just one of dozens of volunteers --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
