Today is a good day to be grateful for my brothers since it’s Chris’s birthday! I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to live in the same city (well, nearly) as Chris and Matt for 3 years once we became adults, giving us the chance to be not just family but also friends.

So, we were doing some armchair genealogy this weekend and we came across a distant ancestor who bears a striking resemblance to Christopher Gadda:

Christoph von Carlson, better know as Topher the Intrepid, was a well-known explorer and early scientist. He was a pioneer in the practice of dune skiing and a widely recognized expert in the fields of airship exploration and horseless carriage design. He is most famous for leading an aquatic archeological expedition across Payette Lake during which he disappeared, never to be heard from again. Local lore holds that he lived out his remaining days there, and was known to the townspeople as the Hermit of Shell Island.