This post is actually some of Jim's own Random Acts of Kindness as remembered by Erica Lemieux when she and her university friends met up with Jim in Half Moon Bay on their bike trip across the continent.

I feel blessed to have met him... and see him again at at his 80th birthday party, and again a couple of years ago in his Half Moon Bay old-age community while on my biketrip.

He made our visit SO SO SO special, complete with meeting us ON THE BEACH and parading through town, a tour, tacos for dinner, mingling with his best friends - many of whom were characters like himself, and then back to his place to listen to a cassette of his barber-shop quartet.

And wouldn't you know, before he sent us off the next morning - after he so graciously got us a spot to sleep on the ping-pong room floor - he gifted us an angel-food cake for the road.  Impractical for bikers, but one we would never forget.