Forty years ago I departed St Louis on a company trip to San Francisco with a stop at Denver, where she boarded and chose to sit next to me. We struck up a conversation that could have lasted a lifetime. Before we deplaned she gave me her address and phone number, asking me to call her after I had finished my business at the Shell Oil lab. I called the next day at 5 PM. She invited me to her apartment to discuss a place to dine. We visited a club in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA. We dined and danced all evening. When I returned to St Louis I wrote her a letter telling her I had enjoyed...

Elaine and I had met in Denver 1964. We had fallen in love the next evening, as described in Mendocino Chapter, and we found each other in Mendocino 40 years later. We lived in Mendocino for a year and then departed from the human lands to build villages on distant planets in other galaxies.