Burnt Orange Report

On the road with Dean's Texas Rangers

By Jim Dallas

I'm here right now in Houston where we're I'm sitting in a big, mostly empty charter bus headed to Des Moines, Iowa. This is, after all, the first stop -- there are lots of folks to pick up in Spring and Dallas -- of the 14 hour trip. So it'll be pretty tight once we get to Iowa tomorrow morning.

Once again, the Texas Dean campaign is sending up volunteers to get-out-the-vote for Howard Dean in next week's Iowa caucuses.

In addition to blogging the trip for burnorangereport.com, I've been appointed by my little sister's first grade class to show their travelling teddy bear (a teddy bear which is sent with the kids' family members on interesting trips) about how a presidential campaign works. "Island Bear" is also going to learn about the great state of Iowa.

As part of that, I've packed some ham radio gear which will allow my computer to automatically report our position (presuming the thing works, of course). If it does, you can look up Island Bear's current latitude and longitude via APRSWorld.Net.