If David has his date right, there couldn’t have been a tee-shirt about the Nita Nanta connection in 1986, because that connection didn’t happen until the following year, 1987. There had been two previous Huautla connections of note, that of Li Nita with Sotano de San Agustin in 1980, and the connection of La Grieta with San Agustin in 1985. I don’t recall tee shirts specifically about either one, though. More likely it was a more general Huautla Project expedition tee shirt, of which we made a couple of different versions.
Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Weaver via Texascavers Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 10:29 AM To: TexasCavers Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Test message I’m thinking the bonfire is more interesting. But I’m a sucker for a happy ending. Nancy If that was the 85 Huautla trip, I was on it. Don’t recall a t-shirt tho. On Nov 2, 2016, at 11:47 PM, Fritz Holt via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: OK, David, tell us who he was/ Is. On second thought, I'd rather hear more about the honeymoon. Fritz Sent from my iPhone On Nov 2, 2016, at 2:35 PM, David via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: This is another long-winded reminiscing story irrelevant to current events. In October of 1986, the Texas cavers were holding their big annual gathering on the Guadalupe River near New Braunfels at a place called "The Lazy L&L Campground." http://www.lazylandl.com/ This was to be my second time at the event. I had been caving steadily for 2 years. I was anxious to meet new cavers and learn new things. I was engaged at the time to a very beautiful, but very grouchy brunette born in New York, but raised in Houston. She was around 17 years old, I think. She attended this with me and camped out in the mosquitos under the stars Friday night. Saturday night we pretended we were on our honeymoon at the Prince Solms Inn. Anyways, her only other caving experience was off-trail in Inner Space led by Mr. James Jasek. He took a nice photo of us near the "Squid Room," but a year later, in our final meeting she poured gas on it and all other of our shared mementos in a bonfire on my front porch and nearly set herself on fire. Fortunately, Mr. Jasek gave us two copies. But all that is the side story to be dwelled upon in a future post. At that big caving event, I met a young hippie-looking guy with a very pleasant demeanor wearing a really awesome caving shirt. It said something to the effect of "Member of the Nita Nanta Connection." I asked him about the shirt, and he told me the whole story and the significance of the discovery and his role in the exploration. I was very excited to have met a real world-class cave explorer. I had aspirations to be like him someday, and so he was a big role model in my life. But the deck of cards I drew, just didn't match that destiny. I still admire that guy today, and always look forward to seeing him at major caving events. David Locklear NSS # 27639
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