I have so many fond memories of Brad and considered it a privilege to have worked with him. Perhaps my favorite story about Brad actually occurred in Eureka. We traveled there together for a first aid instructor’s course and Brad became more animated the closer we got. We’d had an ongoing joke about the fact he’d been raised in Eureka and I’d been raised in L.A. and how different these environments were, in negative ways of course, and we laughed a lot about it. Upon arriving in Eureka we discovered the course had been cancelled. Brad saw this as a golden opportunity to educate me about the wonders of Eureka and we spent a better part of the day driving around on a “sightseeing” tour, at least according to Brad. The highlight for me was visiting the Harley Davidson store, which as I recall was owned by a relative of his. On the way back to Santa Rosa we continued to comment about each other’s hometowns and I told Brad I’d been wrong about Eureka and that it was worse than I’d thought. I will never forget how hard he laughed at that.
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