The post-meeting trips arranged for a guided by VSI sci- entists were a great success, and at the outset I'd like to convey the thanks from my colleagues, and from myself, for extending this considerable hospitality and courtesy to us. Each and every one of the participants: Fiske, Simkin, Stoiber, Williams, Glicken, Yokoyama, Punongbayan the Banks, Rosengren, and of course Mary Ann and I, were…