Late Saturday I had conceded the fact that I would have to drive back out to the eastcoast drop off the Millennium Phoenix and pick up the newly restored Millennium Phalcon. I had tried to convince some friends to relay the truck out to Chicago, but by the time I got to Chicago, nobody had volunteered. I can’t say I blame them either. Sunday was spent with a long brunch with family until the late afternoon. As we were checking out of the hotel, I made a desperate attempt to raise funds for my unavoidable long boomerang journey to the Cape and Islands. I was to be back in IOWA by Friday night, it was Sunday. At any rate, I showed people the website at brunch, and sold a few greeting cards to them. Then I went down to the street out in front of the main lobby of The Palmer House, and set up my cards for sale. It was a lotta fun. Nobody hassled me, and I sold about $40- worth to complete strangers. I was officially broke at this point so this forced me to sell, sell, sell. It was a challenge. Jimmy Mac let me borrow a hundred dollar bill, Mitch gave me all the money is pocket-$45-, Jenny bought me some batteries with a twenty and told me to keep the change, and Lizzy bought My Foot & a few other cards. I managed to raise close to $200-. Every penny was needed. I told one of the guests, Dave Lewis that I’d give him a ride to South Bend on the condition that he pilot the Phoenix while I sat and wrote in Word. I had never been to Notre Dame, and we drove right into the front loop with the golden dome in the distance. It was around 9pm, I still had a 9 hour drive. Luckily I was in a caravan with Johnny & Kevin all the way back to Rochester, we of course lost each other before Cleveland. While we were in the loop at ND, another karmic coincidence occurred. I noticed a blue van that belonged to my longtime childhood friend Christopher Regan, we use to play a lot of chess together. At any rate, I had not seen Christopher since I launched this idea, he was finishing up law school. I left the Vital Light under the wiper on his windshield. Then, we all got back on the road having dropped of Dave.