Well, everybody -- remember that journey I was talking about? It's about here. We pick up the van tomorrow and we set off across the land on Wednesday. I'm going to call to get my cable shut off and the box picked up today, and I'm going to try and schedule it for tomorrow. That means offline-ness starts then. That means that as of tomorrow I won't be able to provide support for a little bit. Luckily, the only thing I've had anyone request support for so far was the Dungeon Lighting Kit -- and that's for sale on DAZ, not here, so they provide support for that. This 'blackout period' will probably last a week, but maybe longer. Depends on how long until I am able to get things settled once I reach Portland. The trip plan goes as follows, I think: Philadelphia, PA (Start) I-76 Harrisburg, PA I-80 Pittsburgh, PA Cleveland, PA Toledo, OH South Bend, IN Gary, IN Chicago, IL Joliet, IL Davenport, IA Iowa City, IA Des Moines, IA Omaha, NE Lincoln, NE Cheyenne, WY Salt Lake City, UT I-84 Boise, ID Portland, OR If someone gives us a place to crash along the way along this route, you get a copy of all my stuff free. There will be four people, three cats, two snakes, a ferret and some rodents in tupperware that would be vying for a warm crash spot. Email me at dodger@dodger.org. Of course, not everywhere will be a place we really need to be crashing (for instance, it would be a bit silly to stop and sleep in Harrisburg, PA). For the rest, I don't know the times we'll arrive, only that the estimated trip-through is 48 hours and we have two drivers to trade off. Regardless, a travellers' waymeet is always welcome and we have no lembas. B^) The trip's going to be a pain, since the bank decided to charge me overdraft fees for about ten dollars worth of overdrafts while a grand deposit is pending. In other words, I've been charged $245 in overdrafts because the bank is slow. Needless to say, after all the money shuffling that must occur to get the money into the account it needs to be in to rent the van, I'm closing the account and re-entering the wonderful world of cash (I have a bank in Portland, and it's a Credit Union so they screw members less often than a bank screws customers). I think fter all the expenses are covered, I'm going to have about $200 (then we can only cross our fingers we'll get the deposit back). And so we begin this great Quest for the West Coast, leaving behind the dark myres and hills of Darkest Pennsylvania for the grand Elfin mountains of the Cascades and Tir Tairngire -- a journey of nearly three thousand miles. (We actually measured it out and thr trip is roughly equivalent to travelling from Seattle to Nicaragua. Is that scary or what?) So it begins. grabs his staff and travelling cloak