I flew into Heathrow a week or so early and took a bus to Swindon, where Scott picked me up. We drove to Devizes and spent a couple days meeting with people at GEMS, then drove to Solva where Scott and his girlfriend Rose were living in a small apartment above the Harbour Inn, which she managed.
We spent two days there, touring the area and looking at the sheds on his property near St Davids. then drove back to London for the conference.
Scott introduced me to a lot of people he had been working with for years, and we talked about the new software he was developing.
After the conference we drove north to Inverness, in Scotland, where the Maureen, a 60′ boat Scott had recently purchased, was moored. We spent four or five days there, documenting the boat and figuring out what needed to be changed to convert it back to a survey vessel.
We then drove back to London where Scott dropped me at Heathrow for my return flight.