When Kristina Basham met Scott Adams on Christmas Day 2019, few could have foreseen the trajectory that awaited them both. The 31-year age gap between the then-90-year-old cartoonist and the accomplished 31-year-old pilot was not lost on observers, yet their engagement that same holiday season felt, in the moment, like genuine romance.
Seven months later, on July 11, 2020, they were married aboard a yacht in San Francisco Bay. Two years would follow — years marked by music, aviation and the kind of partnership that briefly seemed to offer Adams a new chapter after his previous marriage had fractured.
