Congrats on the nice finds and finding someone your can share your passions with, even if they are on the opposite side of the world....it's really not that big of a planet.
Heck I'm lucky to get my wife out with her detector to a tot lot....she simply won't go to the old sites I enjoy detecting (too much sun, ready to go home in an hour, afraid of snakes, bears and mt lions, oh and you get dirty
BTW SeabeeRon if Guido is available for some easy desert work, I might have a job for him coming up soon