From a mother-and-son duo to an English couple celebrating their anniversary, everyone I met extended their stay, and many discussed quitting their jobs to join the Lazy Beach staff, something that's happened more than once.
These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
"I know that there is a frustration amongst Haitian people, but when I met them, from their faces, I have seen that they have great hope and they are a great, resilient people, " U.N.
The families that I met with know in their hearts what every American must never forget.
"I was struck by how many people I met who had had their own experience with the criminal justice system, " recalls Davidson.
And everywhere I went while I was running for this office, I met folks who felt their economic security slipping away, men and women who were fighting harder and harder just to stay afloat.
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At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.
On the ground, I met a family who saw their house destroyed by a Katyusha rocket.
All the interrailers I met had been changed by their adventures.
So many of the patients here come because they have needs that are not being met elsewhere and I hear their stories across our country and I've certainly heard them here in Iowa.
And I just met Ima and Sheila and several of their fellow advocates, and I have to tell you they are an incredible inspiration.
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They're the soldiers I met in Baghdad who have done their duty, year after year, on a second, third or fourth tour.
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The families I met with last week who lost their loved ones in the explosion -- these families deserve to know why.
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New breeds of business people in Asia I have met, are forfeiting parts of their profits and moving away from established models of philanthropy.
The other day, I met with business leaders who are doing their part by insourcing -- by bringing jobs back to the United States.
In Westcliff, part of Southend, I met a family who recently cashed in their three-bedroom house in Barking for a six-bedroom home by the sea.
As I met with each client and listened to their struggles, my mind began to formulate additions to our system design that were far broader in scope than my original ideas had ever been.
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Whilst there I met Anthony Hill, his wife Lena and their son Finlay, who was there for his MMR jab.
Early on in my time as a parliamentarian, I met a range of colleagues to ask what their tips were for a new MP.
There are such vivid things that it was a way of meeting people who otherwise I never could have met for the practical reason of their mortality.
More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Illinois, who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour.
After I began transition, I met more and more transsexual men like myself, and I saw firsthand the fear and shame that limited their lives.
It is important to stress that none of the families I met had any interest in prematurely ending the lives of their loved ones.
In my 20-plus years managing money I have not met a single investor who put all of their cash into a broad market index, ad infinitum.
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Among the interesting people I met were two independents who registered as Republicans to cast their votes for Jon Huntsman, to protest against a strain of conservatism they dislike.
"I met last week with representatives of Bristol port to hear their concerns that the Severn barrage might be back on the political agenda and the possible impact of their business, " she said.
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And I have met people across our country working not just into their late sixties or seventies, but into their early eighties because they just don't have enough to keep things going for them.
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Even 10 years ago, many of the Greeks I met (in the sports world and beyond) believed that their system was so broken that individual effort didn't matter.
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