November 12th, 2006.
Day 12 of nablopomo
From Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort
Tuscon, Arizona.

There was a dinner reception last evening for the conference attendees. As usual, this far from the east coast, I only knew one of the presenters.

We introduced ourselves and joined another couple who were sitting by themselves. Serenedipity never fails , As we talked we found that we had more and more in common outside the realm of anesthesia.
Scott and myself, had both recently been to the Philmont Boyscout Ranch in New Mexico. In fact as a young scout himself and now as a scout leader, he has been there many times. We spent a lot of time discussing our adventures there. In the course of that exchange we talked about how we trained for the mountain climbing that is done at Philmont and discovered that we both found that running is the best fitness regime for us to maintain good fitness. We both are marathon and 1/2 marathon runners. A pleasant evening lasting much longer than anticipated was surprise. Now D. and Scott's wife M. will be doing stuff together while scott and I are in conference.