This photograph was taken in Aduana, Sonora, Mexico. The varmint on the left is one of my better friends in Mexico. I have stayed many months in his chicken house. Thats what we call it yet it really is a storage room removed from the main house in Southern Sonora.

My friend was once a boxing champion in the Navy. After many years of successful treasure hunting he is semi-retired and now resides in a beach house in Mexico and at another one of his homes on Puget Sound in the North West. From his back porch we can sit and watch the seals or porpoise and eat buckets of clams. The clams are from his beach.

He is one of those friends you can confide in and be comfortable around. You know he will watch your back. A short story about James Bowie. Once he got into a bar fight and admonished Sam Houston for not helping him. Sam repied, "Well James, you were in the wrong." To which Jim Bowie said, "Hell, I know I was in the wrong, that's why I needed a friend." Well Bob is one of the men who would help me in a bar fight even if I was in the wrong.

It is rare to get make a friend like that and I wish I could see him more often, as well as a few other similar Mexican friends.