Every once in a while, you meet a genuine adventurer.
By way of this forum’s private message service, I mentioned to MTFCA member, John Cassara, whom I’d never met in person, but who lives here on Long Island, that our local newspaper, Newsday, was holding its annual “Field of Wheels” car show on May 12th and that if he decided to make the scene, I’d be the fat, bearded guy with the 1915 Touring.
Now, you know how you sort of invent a picture of someone in your mind before actually meeting them—and then it turns out they look nothing at all like what you expected? Well, I figured John would look sort of like me (not a pretty picture) and have a similar, unremarkable story to tell. Then, this tall, athletic, mid-thirties, movie-star looking type shows up and shakes my hand and we start shooting the breeze. Turns out John is a genuine swash-buckler—an adventurer whom, among other things, is a deep-sea scuba diver who used to work a dive ship and has dived on the sunken ocean liner, Oregon, and what’s known as the Mt. Everest of shipwreck dives, the Andrea Doria.
Y’know, we talk among ourselves every day, here on the forum and I bet there’s so little we actually know about each other. What a pleasure to finally shake your hand, John.