At Nico’s request, I added some glow-in-the-dark tape to his crutches so that he could find them in the dark. We have passed the idea along to SideStix and hope they will include this feature on future crutches. Next, I plan to add some reflective tape to make the crutches highly visible to night-time drivers. These two improvements add almost no weight or cost but significantly improve the safety and convenience of the crutches.

An 11 AM return flight to Boston afforded me a few hours of photography this morning. The Fremont Troll, pictured above, is a mixed-media colossal statue, located on Troll Avenue, under the north end of the Aurora Bridge. It is clutching an actual Volkswagen Beetle, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. Locals are quick to point out that the VW bears a California license plate. Despite a late departure from SeaTac which nearly cost me my connection through Dallas, I arrived in Boston by 11 PM and was fast asleep in my bed, exhausted from the jam-packed 3-day excursion, by midnight.