A software engineer named Nick Harris was visiting Washington, D.C. one morning in April when a stranger outside the Supreme Court asked him for directions to the White House. It was only a brief interaction, and yet Harris remembers it well.

“It was very odd,” he said. “Like, why am I running into Jim Harbaugh at the Supreme Court?”

Then again: Why not?

The surreal off-season of Michigan’s new football coach has reached the point that there is no place on the planet where Harbaugh could show up and surprise anyone. He has popped into campus Ultimate Frisbee practices, played catch on Paris’s cobblestone streets and picked organic bananas in Peru. He also hung out with half of the Supreme Court of the United States.

On that April morning, Harbaugh had been strolling the halls of the nation’s highest court, where he says he scored meetings with five justices.