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Monterrey Meetings

10,000 Birds

Work brings me regularly to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico. Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show. Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people.

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Winter Wanderland

10,000 Birds

I flew into Denver from Mexico. Honest food in a fifties’ diner while reminiscing about all those movies you have seen about diners in the fifties. My colleague Doug wrote me an email describing the whereabouts of these “rosy finches” and my wife had to manage my excitement with horse tranquilizer… What a fantastic little birds.

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