re: Tiger Tales: True Confessions, Brushes With Fame & Infamous Tiger Escapades!

It was the 4th of July and we had traveled to Orange County to visit my inlaws. My Father in Law insisted we have a picnic at the yacht club's spot on Catalina so we stocked up his boat and took the hour trip from the LBC to the lovely nature preserve known as Catalina Island.

The water was rough on the way out. But we saw a pilot whale and a school of dolphins. When we reached the cove and anchored amongst the other boats, we jumped into the frigid water, ran up and down the shoreline, took several hundred postcard-worthy photos and ran the dinghy around several coves.

We had settled in for lunch when two couples from the sailboat moored next to us came aboard. One was my father in law's colleague and his wife. The second couple was Dan Bane, the CEO of Trader Joe's, and his wife. Dan had some chips, a cold cut sandwich, remarked that they had just opened stores in St. Louis upon hearing where we were from and then went merrily on his way.

Nice guy. Better store.

This has been "Brushes with Greatness" with the808bass.