A funny thing happened on the way to Portland on Saturday

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It is only a two hour drive on the interstate from my home to Portland. I usually stop at a rest area about 80 miles up the road. As I was coming back to my car, a man stepped out of a vehicle and said, "Well, Jim Higgins!" Fortunately, I recalled his name right away. It was Jerry Baldwin and his wife Lynn, on their way to the airport to fly out to Amsterdam to start a two week river cruise down to Budapest (That must be quite a trip). The even funnier part is that I played matchmaker and got the two of them together in the early 1980s. Jerry was a real estate salesman at an office I called on and Lynn was an escrow officer where I worked. It was my job to solicit business from realtors and Jerry used a different company. I talked him into trying us out and got him together with Lynn for a business lunch. We got his business and Jerry and Lynn got married as well. I run into them every once in a while and am always glad that their marriage is a success.