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Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 02:37    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 02:47    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 02:56    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:07    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:15    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:21    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:26    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:28    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
I love Dave Wilber, he is such a great sport and is willing to have fun with me and my camera. I got these fun shots of him.

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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:32    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:39    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
...Gerhard! I found a photo of you and Jim. It was fun to go to dinner with you this evening.

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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 03:45    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 07:02    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
Gail, thanks so much for this report. For those of us who can't make it to Tucson (Drat!), it is the next best thing.
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 10:53    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
My last show in Tucson was in 1992, surely the next will be in 2019, after retirement, luckily while I have the reportages of Gail.

Thank you very much Gail.

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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 17:49    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
Thanks Brooks and Enrique.
We spent the day at the Sonora Desert Museum today, really a good place to get away to for a while!
Photos to come later.

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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 17:54    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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PostPosted: Feb 07, 2012 18:02    Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin...  
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