Burnt Orange Report

Bell Bus

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

The Chris Bell Campaign launch is almost upon is. Sunday on the UT campus you can join over 400 other people coming from around the state. If you are coming from Houston on the Bus, here is some additional info that you might wish to read up on and pass along. Damon and I will be at the event and hopefully liveblogging it.

I'm headed home to Fredericksburg after the event that day for a 2 Week "vacation" during which I will be working on various website designs for sites I maintain and will only have a dial-up modem which is also our regular phone line. Needless to say, I won't be writing much if at all or checking in to a great degree. I'll be depending on our other writers here to carry on, though I know some of them are also in and out with various trips. Any request to me by e-mail that time will probably be ignored so just save yourself the headache and realize that they will probably be ignored unless unearthly important.

The staging point for the bus trip will be the parking lot of the Memorial City Mall, off of I-10 at the Gessner Drive exit. The buses will be in the SE corner of the parking lot, near the intersection of Memorial City Way and Barryknoll Lane behind Dillard's. The lot owners have been gracious enough to give us use of the space for the day, but please respect their wishes by parking as far from the mall as possible.

Please plan to arrive at the mall at 9:30 AM on Sunday morning. The buses will roll out promptly at 10, and we'd hate for anyone to get left behind! We'll even throw in box lunches for the ride up. You should arrive back at your cars around 7 in the evening.

And one final note: If you're planning to ride up on the buses on Sunday, please be sure to let us know so we can get an accurate headcount. Many of you checked that box when you signed up, but if you forgot to do so or if you've since decided to join us on the bus, let me know directly at tmccann@chrisbell.com. We still have a few spots left, but if there's an overflow crowd then some folks will have to caravan up with us in carpools.