Meet Stephen…

One of the things I wasn’t expecting on my Utah expedition was to get an email from someone offering me a ride on an RX3!  But that’s exactly what happened…I received a nice email from our good buddy Stephen, who has a beautiful RX3 in the fastest color.   Stephen has been reading about the great time Susie and I are having in Utah, and he offered to let me take his RX3 out and about on some of the great roads in the Park City area.

It was a tempting offer, but I don’t have my gear with me and I’m on a pretty tight schedule goofing around seeing the sights in Utah (and trust me, my friends, this is a state with a lot to see).   Instead of an RX3 ride, Susie and I met Stephen for dinner this evening…and I grabbed this photo after a fine meal…

Susie, Stephen, and yours truly had a fun evening, and after a while, we were laughing as we discovered more and more things we have in common…

• Stephen and I are both former US Army artillery officers.
• Stephen and I both attended the Benning School for Boys (you Airborne types will know what I’m talking about).
• Stephen’s wife is from Fullerton; Susie works in Fullerton.
• Stephen and I are both reloaders.
• Stephen and I both enjoy collecting and shooting old military rifles and 1911 pistols.
• All three of us (Susie, Stephen, and I) are engineers; Stephen and I are both mechanical engineers.
• Stephen and I both went to east coast engineering schools.
• All three of us have worked in the defense industry.
• Stephen and I are both Triumph vertical twin fans; he has a ’69 500 Triumph, I had a ’72 500 Triumph.
• All three of us have parents from the east coast.
• All three of us enjoy world travel, and in particular, travel in Asia.
• Stephen and I both ride the fastest color RX3.

Stephen, thanks for joining us for dinner.   We hope to see you again when we roll through Utah next week with our guests from China and Colombia!