The minor problem of Dunedoo not having an airport was overcome by parachuting him down into the main street where he made a perfect landing, although Emmanuel wished they had thought to let him out of the crate first as it was a bit cramped in there alongside his ride-on mower, but the modest impact split the crate open anyhow.
His trip to the Texas Party had blossomed out into a 9 month holiday with board and lodging paid for by the Director of Homeland Security at his Club Med replica on tropical Cuba where he had lots of fun.
By night he thoroughly explored the northern sky with his binocular-Telrads, while by day he played endless dress up games with cute but delightfully kinky US army girls who had not seemed to have heard about the ban on gay marriages and who taught him lots of party tricks.
In fact, he discovered that wearing women's underwear on his head was a great way to keep warm while observing, while the girls were intensely interested in learning about the cultural achievements of Dunedoo, though two of them suffered nervous breakdowns just about the time he was relating how Dunedoo had come an honourable seventh in the Tidy Towns Awards of 1967 and was about to move on to the care and breeding of Tiger Snakes.
Being at the latitude of Cuba he was able to do a Messier Marathon with his famous Telrad / averted imagination combination which was convenient as he was nervous in case a further visit to the Texas Star Party extended out to nine or ten months.
However, he had got to see all the tourist attractions of Fort Davis - the Rattlesnake Museum, the old army buildings, the grand new Pop's hamburger joint, and of course the Prude Ranch and had also noted that the volume of traffic in the central business district of Fort Davis was about at the same level as at Dunedoo.
He had missed out on visiting the McDonald Observatory and had dearly wanted to see if the famous number plates that modest optical aid shows under the Marfa lights could be seen in his Telrads but considered that his free mystery flight by army helicopter more than compensated for these small disappointments.
Once he has settled in at home, Emmanuel plans to take a ride-on mower tour of all New South Wales observatories, working his way from the Australia Telescope at Narrabri to the AAT at Coonabarabran, the radio telescope at Parkes and then on to the ruins of Mt Stromlo.