After successfully tracking down ‘Dave from Vancouver Island,’ a group travellers who met while backpacking Europe in 1969 have reunited in California for the first time in 50 years.
Doug Bradley, who lives in Ontario, reached out to the Vancouver Island Free Daily in May, hoping to find the one traveller out of the group he couldn’t seem to track down to invite him to a reunion planned for the end of June. All he knew was that his name was ‘Dave’ and he was from Vancouver Island.
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The VI Free Daily, PQB News and other Black Press outlets published a story online on May 21 and by May 23 Dave was found.
“The power of social media enabled me to find (Dave) in a mere two days,” Bradley wrote on his Facebook page.
Dave Tryon,72, was found living in North Delta and he and Bradley were able to connect for the first time in 50 years.
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Bradley, Tryon and five Americans, who all watched the the moon landing together on the floor of the U.S. embassy just outside Bonn, Germany in 1969, are currently having a reunion in Monterey, Calif.
“Reunion is going great, like we were never apart,” Bradley said.
