The author has lived and raised a family in West Texas for 23 years. After his enlistment in the US Navy, he needed to get as far away as possible from any large bodies of water. Little did he know how dry that would turn out to be. The hot and dry conditions would eventually drive him to detect the areas lakes and rivers where he enjoyed considerable success. Using many of the things he had learned earlier in Florida and southern California, he adapted them to work in hot and dry west Texas. He works as an Industrial Electrician.