"I found it a real pleasure to meet him and wife Joanna for the first time after all these years, and I think other show visitors would say the same. Dan did look a bit overwhelmed by all the attention, though -- but I hope he will be back".
It truly was a privilege to meet Dan and Joanna in the flesh after all those years of telephone visits. I visited with Dan one final time before leaving on Sunday; he said he and Joanna had enjoyed an amazing time at Deep River, and that he had already completed his application with plans to definitely return for the 2016 Southern Side x Side. The 2015 Southern may have been the best ever; and that in spite of the cold rainy weather we had on Saturday and Sunday. In a conversation with Bill Kempffer the following week, Bill told me that they had pulled more than 100K targets during the event, an increase of more than 16% over the 2014 event.
