When I lived in Bothell, I used to fly a lot in small planes.

One of my friends, Phil Strathy, had a land plane, kept in Monroe. Another friend had a seaplane, kept on Lake Washington at Kenmore.

About every month I would get a call from Phil wanting to know if I wanted to fly with him to someplace for lunch.  The answer was always yes.

Phil was the Darigold distributor for our area, and he wa...