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Kicking back during a lull in the action. Our Fort Davis neighbors included the crew from KTRK, the ABC affiliate in Houston, Texas.

TAKE A BREAK!
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Picture of Epi watching closely as Walt eats some junk food

Walt samples some of the junk food cuisine as Epi studies his technique.
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Bug proof, moisture proof and dust proof storage facilities were improvised as the need presented itself. This is one of the belly bays in the satellite truck.

The executive dinning room.

Eating on the road is always intersting. Many of your square meals come on round buns. The cuisine at Uplink City was worse than being on the road. The nearest restaurant was 20 miles away in Fort Davis and was usually closed when you had time to eat.

 Most of our food came out of an ice chest. Those of us who couldn’t escape to Fort Davis or Alpine ate a mixed diet of Lunchables, miscellaneous sandwiches, Chips Ahoy cookies, potato chips, lemon drops and Gatorade. The stores in Fort Davis have yet to completely restock on junk food.

But we survived and even managed to celebrate a birthday in the process.
Outdoor picnic table under a canopy.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICK!

Rick, (center) an engineer with KTRK, was be assigned to the satellite truck and get sent to Fort Davis for his birthday. His crew didn’t let his birthday pass without notice.
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Rick blows out a birthday candle in the shape of a question mark. The crew didn’t know which birthday it was.
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Picture of Rick opening his birthday pencils

To make the celebration complete, Rick opens some genuine multicolored Super Doppler Radar Radar pencils donated just for the occassion.