I first discovered Heinlein when I was about 17 - 30+ years ago - and quickly, greedily, read everything he had written and I don't even remember there were kilts involved. I wonder if subconsciously that's what started the seed in my brain that grew into full-on kilt admiration and desire....I've known my family was a sept of Buchanan since I can remember - my grandma showed me the blanket she had from Scotland and sang Loch Lomond to me when I was very young as a lullaby...but nobody in my family wore the kilt so I guess it wasn't in the front of my thoughts back then.

And great gosh-a-mighty, Steve, coffee with Heinlein in silence on a beach - I'm just speechless at the thought! "Awesome" seems particularly puny a descriptor. And THEN a signed copy of SIASL (one of my all time favorite books)? That is a beautiful thing, man.