Dear Folks, As you know, several days ago I called Karyn and Alan Anderson in Saskatoon, Canada. I left a message on their answer machine but I didn't get a return phone call. Early this afternoon I thought I'd give it one last shot and I sent an email to Alan who is a professor at the University of Saskatoon. I got his email address off the Internet. If I still didn't get a response, I'd just take the hint that they weren't interested. Around 6:00 when I had just settled down to my dinner, the phone rang. I grumbled to myself and answered it. It was Karyn! It was Karyn!! She was just as excited to talk with me as I was with her. Both she and Alan were thrilled that I had gotten in touch with them after all these years. We traded memories of our boat trip up the Marowijne River. Some things that she remembered, I hadn't and vice versa. When I told her that I'd been transcribing the tape recordings I had made at the time, she begged me to make copies of them and mail them off to them. I said I sure would try. I also said that everything I had transcribed is now stored in my computer and if she wanted me to send them as email attachments, I could certainly do that easily. When I asked her how old she and Alan are now, she almost floored me. She's 61 and Alan is 66!! Of course when I told her I was 73 she couldn't believe that either! We talked about pictures we had taken and she said she would make copies of some of them to send me and I said that I would scan the ones I thought she would be interested in. We wanted to talk for hours and hours but decided 1/2 hour was enough for the time being. We decided that we could continue our conversation via email. She promised me that as soon as we hung up she would send me an email that would show their home email address and current postal mailing address. She made good on her promise and I, in turn, sent her the story I had written about our first two days on the river. Are the three of happy that I got in touch with them? Oh you can bet the farm that all of us are thrilled and looking forward to going back 33 years with pictures and sounds. Whoopee!! vee