Martha Bitts:  

Bob and I have an interest in visiting with people of different cultures and countries. This interest lead me to learn to enjoy Persian cuisine while I was in college, and I still consider it one of the healthiest ways to eat. Bob spent a summer, while in graduate school and before I met him, bicycling toward San Jose University inPanama (I think). He and two companions left SanJose State Univ in San Jose, Calif. Bob, being visually handicapped, provided a tandem, pedalling from the back seat. Of the three who set out, only one made it to Panama. Bob was bumped in Mexico because of chronic bicycle parts probllems, By the time the bike parts were arriving to be installed, it was time to return to college. The purpose of their trip was to carry a friendship scroll from Calif to Panama, and one of them succeeded! He and Bob are still in touch today. After getting married in Albuquerque, and moving to Littleton, CO where Bob taught math, we travelled to central northern Calif and Oregon to meet Bob's extended family. Bob had spent two years teaching in El Salvador at the American High School before I knew him; but in early 1974, he took a sabbatical to return to El Salvador and study the status of math education there. our son, then 13 months old, and I, went along for a couple months to experience life in Bob's "second country". We met many of his former friends there, and made many new ones. And, survived the intestinal troubles we had to get used to. A few years later, Bob and I went to Haifa, Israel to visit ...Expand for more