TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE MET DURING OUR NORTH AMERICAN TRIP
This is a most sincere thank you to all those people that Barbara and I met during our time travelling in Texas, Mexico and Canada. Each of you has enriched our experience making it much more than just a trip, and the photos that I have taken will provide reminders of our time on the road. Photos cannot replace all the personal contacts that make such a difference when travelling.
To those with whom we shared a tour bus in Mexico, I have to add a special extra thanks for helping us cope with our inability to speak Spanish. I am going to have to work on pronouncing 'abeja', a key word in my vocabulary. The comradeship and friendliness from so many is greatly appreciated and those challenging conversations in Spanish/English have changed our outlook on other regions of the world that we previously only knew from news reports, and the skewed view that they often give. We will look at news reports from new countries with a newfound interest.
Of course I also must thank those we met who shared my interest in bees of all types and their keeping, and all the contacts made for the future.
I will start putting up photos that I took during the trip on my website in August and progressively a collection of my bee photos will also appear. I am hoping to have enough suitable photos taken from the bus on the move in Mexico to include them as well.
As soon as photos are available my plan is to have a link in this message to a series of named folders covering our trip. All are welcome to view the images, download any of interest, or contact me with comments. If you would like higher resolution images, I am happy to send them to those who we met on our travels. The collection of photos of bees of course will continually expand if you care to call by at some future time to see. I very nearly made it back to Costa Rica in September, but faltered when I needed to be decisive.
Thanks to all for some great companionship. We would love to hear from you in the future, the invitations expressed then were serious and intended.
Bob the Beeman
