When David Simmons went missing in a December 2020 landslide on Beach Road, friend and neighbor Joe Aultman-Moore was so devastated he was unable to bring himself to help in search efforts.
But a conversation with Simmons’s father Randy Simmons afterward led to a way for Aultman-Moore to honor his friend. Before he died, David was working on a memoir of his travels to 77 nations around the globe.
Aultman-Moore assumed the manuscript was swept…
