To New Members

[Sue]

From the past surely, but hardly a ghost....

Rob and I are olllllld friends from pre-Internet days. We first met on a FIDONet echo called ASIAN-LINK in the early 1990s and eventually both became members of the worldwide moderator team for the echo.

It was an absolute delight to hear from him via the forum and EMAIL today.. it's been MUCH too long without contact.

In 1994, I had plans to travel to Germany as pay back for a visit from our German moderator Klaus. Rob was crazy enough to insist that I visit Holland too and I spent a wonderful two weeks as his guest. We saw so much of Holland... so many wonderful sights and interesting places. I still marvel at the day we spent at Apenhuel, a primate sanctuary where the monkeys are loose all over the grounds. If I lived there I would visit there as often as I could. We traveled by foot and bicycle a good bit of the time so it was almost a "boot camp" for me, but we sure had a good time and I came home in MUCH better shape than I had left in. I have never forgotten the warm hospitality I enjoyed there.

I am also indebted to Rob for very good advice he gave me while I was visiting. I could easily have come home from Holland with a Bouvier, but I took his advice and decided to look closer to home, and in retrospect his advice was right on target. Thanks again Robby!

I even had my own little bed puppy while I was visiting.... Bommel the JRT was such a hoot, and I came to love Rob's old Bas too...the first Friese Stabyhoun I had ever met....a lovely old gentleman he was.

So welcome Robby... and don't be such a stranger again!


Doeeiiiii!

Sue