The first time I went to Washington, D.C. was as a family to visit my mother’s brother, Uncle Dean, who had an apartment there. He was single and worked as a rocket fuel chemist for the government in nearby Arrowhead, Maryland. Uncle Dean owned a color TV. The only thing I wanted to see on the trip was his color television, which I had never seen before. On the way there in that smoke-filled sedan, I fantasized about what it would look like, in particular Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and that wonderful NBC peacock. It did not disappoint me when I got there. He even had a clicker to change the channels remotely. Clickers or remotes in those day were comparatively large mechanical devices. There were only four large buttons: On, Off, Channel Up and Channel Down. There were no volume controls. When you clicked it, it initiated a mechanical servo on the set that sounded like “chunk.” So when you changed channels (there were about five in the D.C. area) it would sound like, “Click, Chunk, Click Chunk,”  Awesome! In my wildest dreams could I ever imagine we’d have one in our own house two years later. Little did I know, but later on in life, I would not only work at the RCA facility in Princeton where color TV was invented, I would partner with one of the key inventors of color TV, John Wentworth, to educate the NBC television network management on how TV is engineered. John would later sell Robin a drum set as a gift for me that would eventually be the first set my three year old son Drew would play. Drew would eventually become a world-class drummer. It’s funny how things are connected sometimes. While we were in the nation’s capital, we visited the Smithsonian Institutions, the Art Museum, and the  National Zoo. I got a stomach flu while I was there and couldn’t eat Chinese food for years.