I was about to leave a rest stop in Southern Maryland when an elderly couple pulled in next to me. The old woman on the passenger side must have been 80+ and slowly began to get out, and I could tell it was taking a bit to get her old bones moving. As she got out, her eyes wandered from me to the canoe (Northstar B17) on my van, and back again. She took a few shakey steps towards me and stiffly raised her head to speak. I waited for the typical questions: going fishing, did you catch anything? how do you get that boat up there? You know the questions. I was unprepared for what she actually said: "Is that canoe an innegra aramid layup?" Not what I expected. She said it looked like their H2O canoe, made in Canada. Not what I expected. I was chuckling at my preconceptions as we went our separate ways.