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Red Mud Gonzo: Twelve



"Regular Time" by peoplesDuke

Shoot. Alarm was set for regular time. Be there in 30 mins. Sorry.  Gonna be hot, hot in Houston. Just bringing shorts & tennis shirts. 86, 87 degrees each day.



"Dawn Neon" by jpg

Nick Bollitieri is almost 88 and still has 20/20 vision.  No contacts, no glasses, no surgery.  Incredible.  This Dallas HOV life is a rush.  Flying south through the great Central Expressway.  Allen, Plano, into Dallas proper.  The dawn neon of downtown.  Cranes!  Just flying through.  Red mud sun about to rise.



"Opposite Commute" by AJ

Just drove, opposite commute, similar views. Beautiful morning.



"Astonished" by jpg

...just heard the Vantaggio five year plan.  Astonished.  It will be made so...



"Vantaggio Road Trip"  by TTop

Mr Red Mud Rising....Mr RedMud Rising.  Sun to the left, Ennis to the right...here we come, right down to Houston again. Vantaggio Road Trip!  Red Mud Gonzo!



"Fluid Operator"  by jpg

...cargo shorts get a bad rap.  TTop was there first.  They gathered around him.  The gals.  They felt comfortable around him.  Safe.  Like he was their guardian angel, watching over them, eyes covered by shades, a few swallows of beer to go...  So Vantaggio, man.  So Vantaggio......that Marty Fish is everywhere!  Last I saw he was coaching Isner after Isner dumped his coach.  Unofficially and passively.  Now, he's snapping photos with Bobby P's tennis wife in the Hill Country.  Surely Mardy is getting paid for this, this drilling workshop.  He is a mystery, he is a shadow, he swims around like a shark.  He'll be walking around River Oaks, approachable, moving, unaffiliated, a fluid operater...

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