When Paula and I visited New Zealand in 2013 we climbed Baldwin Street in Dunedin, then billed as the steepest residential street in the world.

I was 80 years old at the time. And the oldest person on the SmarTours bus to make the climb.

I got a standing ovation upon my return to the bus.

Bob Dyer, my lunch partner for more than two decades, did a followup column to his article about steep Cadillac Hill in Akron.

The last person mentioned among the responses is me.

Bob describes me as “the youngest old person I know.”

Nothing ventured, nothing climbed.

By the way, by 2018 a street in Wales surpassed Baldwin as the steepest street in the world. So I’ve been demoted to #2 steepest street.