Searching for a place to live, attracted to Bellingham by a random act of kindness.

1977 I had returned to school to change careers and find a friendly place to work and live. Searching along the Pacific coast, I found myself in Bellingham standing on the corner of Magnolia and Cornwall in front of Dave Thomas’s men’s wear shop. I was looking at a tourist map and up comes a man who said “It looks like you could use some directions, can I help? That would never happen where I came from. I had one more quarter to finish, so I subscribed to the local paper and two days after I passed my orals, I was on my way to find a way to live in Bellingham. That decision was one of the best things that have ever happened to me. Thank you, Bellingham!