I have to thank my dad for first getting me to the salt flats-- I wouldn't have nearly the accumulation of friendships and memories had I never been introduced. While I've missed many meets since 2007, I've recently been making better attempts to get down to the salt... addictive stuff.
Thank you all for posting, It's fun looking back on photos of previous meets, sometimes (like in Porkpie's case) I find people in the background who I didn't know at the time, but do now.
And yes, the salt just isn't quite the same without Freud, but I feel incredibly lucky to have known him. I still remember my first lesson while apprenticing under him, it was on "Forced Sales Tactics" for the Salt Talks raffle, also in that 2007 timeframe. As with y'all, there are a lot of fond memories I have of Freud.