Okay folks out there in blog land, this is the new chapter in my blog. I’m using a new program called Dragon speaking naturally version 15. It’s not a perfect solution but it may go a long ways towards containing my jittery fingers. So far things are looking pretty good. I have dictated this first paragraph and only had to go back and take out the 15 about five times. But no fingers!

Now the one danger here is that someone speaking in the background could get included in my blog. That was a particular problem with version 12 that I was using before. When I went to proofread what I had just written I would discover comments from Judy included in my text. This new version is passing the test with flying colors. Judy is over next to me listening to videos particularly the one about two bartenders in a boat of our friend Henry and none of it is showing up in my blog.

We have come across three states now, Oregon Nevada and Arizona. Were halfway across New Mexico and tomorrow we are going to Hueco tanks State Park near El Paso Texas. This is a really fun state park because it has huge boulders everywhere. It’s a playground to people who do what they call bouldering. Here’s what you see when somebody is coming bouldering.

You see this huge mattress waddling down the pathway like SpongeBob SquarePants with a little person under it. They choose a boulder, lay their foam pad at the bottom of the climb, rosin up and free climb to the top of boulder. Of course the Sponge Bob is waiting there to catch climber in his arms if they fall. Often these boulders that they’re claiming are 12 to 20 feet high and many of them have shallow depressions in the top of which are called tanks that’s really what the name Hueco Tanks is referring to.

The other thing we like to do is hike and take the camera and photograph the pictographs that are everywhere including on the bottom side of some boulders.

We first came to this park in December 2006 and spent a couple of days taking the long hikes in the north part of the park led by knowledgeable rangers. I got lots of good photographs that we won’t have a chance to do this trip.

I’ll end this blog on that note. I had to correct a few mistakes with my fingers but it is been pretty good.