MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Air B&Bs. Maybe some lucky per- son will stay in one of them for the upcoming Coverings 2019, which will be held in Orlando. I highly encourage everyone involved in the tile industry to attend this show. You will not be disappointed. I have attended many Coverings shows, and Orlando is one of the top venues. This year I met so many people that I knew from the tile groups. One that comes to mind is “the man, the myth, the legend” 2018 Coverings Rock Star Jason McDaniel. Jason runs a Facebook group called Global Tile Posse (GTP) and it was a pleasure getting to spend time with him at the Golden Trowel Challenge. I will never forgot attending Coverings in Orlando, back in 2015. While I was online in the Tile Geeks social media group, a guy was disappointed that he couldn’t attend, since his travel partner bailed at the last minute. I reached out to him, offering him lodging at my mom’s house with me for the show. I picked him up in South Georgia, on my way to Orlando and we drove straight to the show. Donovan Lucero of Lucero Flooring Company, Jesup, Ga., and I have become lifelong friends and broth- ers in the tile industry. We also met up with another great guy that I knew online through Tile Geeks, who has become one of my best friends: Ben Ernst. We walked in the Orange County Convention Center, and the first person we ran into was Brad Denny, NTCA Five-Star contractor (Nichols Tile & Terrazzo Co, Inc., Joelton, Tenn.) We knew him from Tile Geeks, but not in person. He grabbed us and brought us over to the NTCA lounge and made us feel at home. What a great guy; I am proud to call him a friend. CTEF I just finished helping Scott Carothers teach a weeklong class in Pendleton, S.C. at the CTEF in early November. The class was an Roberts joined DW Sanders Tile and Stone Contracting, Inc, to set tile in the Installation Design Showcase Tiny House project during Coverings 2018. Roberts made his mark in wet clay dur- ing the Global Monumental Hand Print Mural Project held at Coverings 2018. 68 TileLetter | December 2018