It was very cool having a counter culture hippie Uncle to paint a little color in my (great but) vanilla childhood. My Uncle David, who never had patience for the formalities in life, was always very generous with me. Whether it was volunteering to coach my little league team for the year after the coach never showed up, trusting me to "babysit" the VW bus while on a sailing adventure, helping me improve a school project, letting me stowaway on the boat sailing the Bahamas or giving advice on business ventures; he would always come though.
We actually almost started a business venture together in the early 90's. We were sure this internet thing was going to be big and had a series of meetings to figure out what products we best could sell on a site we would develop. To my huge regret, we ultimately let other things take priority and never followed through. Shortly after there was a little local company called Amazon.com that went public that I've heard has done pretty well.
-Sam