Thank you for the birthday wishes and I had an interesting day teaching while students pondered how old I was becoming before their very eyes. I'm now 38 years old and for fans of my road trip threads there is good news in the future as next summer might well see me back on a tour of American zoos! The tentative plan at this early stage is to leave my wife and 3 little kids at home and tick off 40 mainly small zoos/aquariums in 18 days.