{"id":5768,"date":"2023-10-04T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:04:09","slug":"the-buddy-walk-caminata-de-amigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"The Buddy Walk \/ Caminata De Amigos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Buddy Walk \/ Caminata De Amigos<\/strong> is an annual event held by the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 24th Annual Buddy Walk was held on October 1st at Reunion Ranch (about 25 miles northwest of Austin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Buddy Walk is, in a word, a blast!<\/em><\/strong> Lots going on, great weather, a chance to visit, and an opportunity to support a wonderful organization.<\/p>\n\n\n

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DSACT has an informative web site<\/a>, and a vibrant Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Friends of WLBOTT: Sara, John and Georgia.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We had a chance to meet up with Friends of WLBOTT<\/strong>: Sara, John, and Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reunion Ranch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We were so excited this year about the Buddy Walk that we arrived a full 24 hours early!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my own defense, managing WLBOTT, with its multiple time zones, international date line considerations, borders, local customs, tariffs, duties, currency exchanges, etc., it is not unreasonable that we occasionally make this type of mistake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not all bad news. We got GREAT<\/em><\/strong> parking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus on our return visit the next day, we had the route burned in our brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Way Cool: Travis County Star Flight Joins the Walk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I tried to get John P. to fake a heart attack, so that we could get a ride in the helicopter back to Austin, but he declined (concerns about his deductible).<\/p>\n\n\n

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HEB: The Grocery Laureate of Texas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Texas grocery chain HEB has been a long-time sponsor of the Buddy Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out these Texas recipes….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 501st Legion: “Bad Guys Doing Good”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The 501st Legion<\/a> (Vadar’s Fist) made an appearance at the Buddy Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Storm Trouper is informing Team Georgia<\/em><\/strong> that our Landspeeder is illegally parked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Buddy Walk \/ Caminata De Amigos is an annual event held by the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas. The 24th Annual Buddy Walk was held on October 1st at Reunion Ranch (about 25 miles northwest of Austin). The Buddy Walk is, in a word, a blast! Lots going on, great weather, a chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heros","category-texas","category-those-crazy-kids"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}