I found this picture recently on a website for my last high school reunion (lifted shamelessly without permission, but, hey, I never signed a model release either). It was taken at Mount Trashmore park… yes, that is its real name… during a picnic; I did not actually go to any of the other reunion things.

Blake and Mark are the other two guys.

Some interesting-to-me-anyway things:

• Amanda immediately noted: “No gray hair!!!!!”
• I still have the fleece vest, but Amanda does not want me to wear it in public and embarrass her
• I do not have the t-shirt anymore
• nor do I have those round glasses

Hmm, I definitely look thinner especially in the upper body. Perhaps I was in my T-Rex body type phase (Amanda: “humongous legs, teeny useless arms!”) since I was bicycling everywhere in the last half of the 90s.

I wish I still had the waxed floppy hat; it had been with me on countless hikes and mountains and protected me from rain, sleet, and snow for years until I lost it within the first week of moving to Seattle. Sad. I have not been able to find a replacement, although I did see one almost like it on Kaua’i, but it was too small.