It is Tuesday, August 31st, It is my great privilege and honor to be here with Charles Trimble. Charlie, it's great to see you. Thank you so much for joining me. Given the campus opening up this fall, I'll be able to get back on campus, which is something that I love to do now.
I'm often on a retreat on Shaw Island in the San Juans. Other than that, I travel. That has all been put on hold for the last 18 months, but it looks like the veil is lifting. What are some of the other things that are most important to you these days? What else takes up your time? I'm still on a "micro-camp" public board in the communications area at KVH.
Unfortunately, the biotech company that I had been mentoring for the last couple of decades probably is going to go under. I've got a couple of family members that are ten and 11 that I am planning out a whole series of trips for.
The national park tour into May, June this yearβ11 parks in 14 days, Denver to Los Angeles, national parks. Costa Rica, Christmas. Galapagos in late May, early June. Oh, and with the associates, my wife and I just went down the Colorado River on a rafting trip. We are scheduled to go to Antarctica in February. So I guess I'm in the Caltech bucket list phase of my life right now.
What is your involvement or connections there these days? Other than that, I simply left in If you were able to take a time machine back to , knowing what you know now in terms of what the company has achieved, would you be surprised or not? In other words, was your vision at the founding, do you see that as the origin story for what Trimble Inc.
