Gary and I became friends during our high school days at Roosevelt. We ran around together during those years doing all kinds of things, including camping out. The ultimate camping trip we did together was a 98 day camping trip throughout Europe during the summer between our Junior and Senior years in college. We took off from Seattle, spent a few days in New York City and then boarded an older French liner, the ill de France. We spend a few days camping outside of Paris and then we trained into Berlin (the Berlin wall was being built at the time). We spent a few days there and then picked up a VW and started off on our trip. We had a life time of fun and experiences camping and getting to know people from all over the world. While in Italy we ran into Paula Paup from our Roosevelt class. She was on an exchange program from Stanford. One of our fondest memories was visiting Richard Lawson in Bad Kreuznach (BK), Germany. Rich was in the 8th Airborne in BK at the time. We hooked up with Rich and his buddies who proceeded to show us a great time around the area; as only the American service guys can show you! For years after that trip, every time Gary and I would get together we never failed to reminisce about that wonderful time we had together in Europe. We could have written a book on all of our experiences and it gave me the travel bug that has continued throughout the rest of my life. Gary was a wonderful friend and travel companion.