CS - Welcome to the come along trip. It's my turn to expound on the adventures that we are looking forward to on our trip Around The World. As I listened to Don yesterday, it brought back my youth, growing up on the prairies and hills of western South Dakota and going to the library on Saturdays when we'd come into town, getting books by Richard Halliburton, Seven League Boots and Seven Wonders of the World. Maybe some of you older ones will remember that he also did the movie Travel Logs prior to World War II. He wrote adventure travel stories with incredible descriptions of places like Katmandu, Pakistan, Constantinople, which is now Istanbul. I read those and could envision what they were and Narcelle and I have seen many of them on our travels. But, of course, on this trip, we're going to see them all kind of at one time - the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Mt. Everest, the Taj Mahal, the deserts of Iran, many interesting things. As Don was talking about as a child putting the dots together, I remember looking at the maps and during World War II reading US News and World Report, Time magazine and looking at pictures in Life magazine of China, Burma and India, flying over the hump, Flying Tigers, all of these will be our mental pictures when we're traveling across China and the Himalayas.

Bringing you up-to-date on the car. It's on its way on a slow boat to China. We have all the necessary insurance papers now and have all our medicines together, our camping equipment, because there are a lack of hotels in Western China and we will be camping out in tents. Everything seems to be a go. I keep thinking I must have forgotten something, I usually do, but I haven't found it on any of the lists yet, so it looks like everything is all set.

I hope all of our friends and relatives will keep in touch using this 800 number and follow our progress as we continue Around The World from New York to Paris by way of San Francisco, Peking/Beijing, the Himalayas, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy. Our chief technician, Alan, is improving. He's going to be laid up for the rest of this month but progress is fine. We're making plans for getting everybody together in China for our send off and in Paris for our arrival October 18th. That's all I have to say today. This is Carl, of the Don and Carl come along trip Around The World, signing off.