Arizona folk. What say you to meeting up at 10.30am on Monday, April 3rd in Mesa or Phoenix.

Anyone interested in nature, see CarefreeBuzzBuzz's post about Gilbert Sanctuary below. Meet-up: Mesa/Phoenix

Count me in.

Cheerio. Begin to think of your recommendations, John.

One can peruse this site for ideas:
https://www.arizonacoffee.com

List of shops. Nothing stands out for me that we haven't been too.

Prefer we stick closer to Mesa or Gilbert. I am likely to go to the Gilbert Riparian Preserve first so I could meet 1030ish. Anyone with an interest in birds or photography could meet me.

Suggest we plan on a lunch place - Tacos or pizza or Empanadas - actually better choices than coffee in this town.

I can vouch for this Empanada place - Republic. Not expensive and excellent.

Best I know for today.

"Prefer we stick closer to Mesa or Gilbert. I am likely to go to the Gilbert Riparian Preserve first so I could meet 1030ish. Anyone with an interest in birds or photography could meet me."

In. Meet you there. Name a time. I could learn from you. Bought a book on birds of SE Arizona.

I have edited coffee meetup post above to 10.30am. Work for you John?

"Suggest we plan on a lunch place - Tacos or pizza or Empanadas - actually better choices than coffee in this town."

I had planned on it and was going to kick around ideas for lunch over coffee.

I'm in. Me and the wife.

1030am, some shop RapidCoffee suggests.

Boldjava, Dave
Ms Boldjava, Dee
CarefreeBuzzBuzz, Michael
RapidCoffee, John
Gimpy
Ms Gimpy

Some will venture in the wild of the Gilbert Riparian Preserve at 8.30am.
CBB
BoldJava
Ms BoldJava

Lunch follows coffee for those interested.

Dave and Michael have long been my close HB "friends" Dave, well over a decade and a half since joining HB, Michael, about half that time. Both have been extremely important to me over the years, even though we've never managed to meet in person. This is a meetup that I'd really like to attend if I could. I only have one daily driver that I'd take on a road trip and it's due to be repaired because of an accident,so my schedule is not predictable . I never work on Mondays, so it creates some opportunities, but we're all slaves to the schedule. If I can make it, I'll update this thread, but I'd really like to.

This would be quite a fun road trip!

Boldjava wrote:"Prefer we stick closer to Mesa or Gilbert. I am likely to go to the Gilbert Riparian Preserve first so I could meet 1030ish. Anyone with an interest in birds or photography could meet me."

In. Meet you there. Name a time. I could learn from you. Bought a book on birds of SE Arizona.

I have edited coffee meetup post above to 10.30am. Work for you John?

"Suggest we plan on a lunch place - Tacos or pizza or Empanadas - actually better choices than coffee in this town."

I had planned on it and was going to kick around ideas for lunch over coffee.

I use the Cornell School of Ornithology app for ID - it's called Merlin.
I would say 8:30am subject to weather changes.
Let's find a lunch place in advance so we know our choices such as Republic. I will discuss with John who I will see tomorrow.

TomC wrote:Dave and Michael have long been my close HB "friends" Dave, well over a decade and a half since joining HB, Michael, about half that time. Both have been extremely important to me over the years, even though we've never managed to meet in person. This is a meetup that I'd really like to attend if I could. I only have one daily driver that I'd take on a road trip and it's due to be repaired because of an accident,so my schedule is not predictable . I never work on Mondays, so it creates some opportunities, but we're all slaves to the schedule. If I can make it, I'll update this thread, but I'd really like to.

This would be quite a fun road trip!

That would be cool or warm, but it's not warm yet. Not even going to hit 70 in the next 8 days where I live.