In August 2017 I met up with Robert, a friend from grade school whom I had seen last in 1973. Shirley Jean and I attended a conference in Seattle and I stayed with Robert and met his friends Clémentine and Adrien, the founders of Wings for Science.

We hiked along the Wallace River, visited Rosario Beach, drove down Whidbey Island and took the ferry to Mukilteo. After some seafood at Ivar’s we returned to Bothell.

Robert’s airplane is an experimental, painted Subaru Blue, the same as Orion (my Forester), and white. We had a pleasant flight over the San Juan Islands.