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A Most Unexpected Encounter

10,000 Birds

Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. If asked, we would answer, “We’ve come from Mexico.” and Mexico won’t allow them to be shipped here. You see, North American Mergansers do not normally reach central Mexico, and I had never seen any.

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Birding Acapulco

10,000 Birds

Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S., Cuba (twice), South America (twice), Europe and Morocco (once) and Bali (once). The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there.

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