DJ -We've arrived in San Francisco and completed the United States leg and first stage of our trip Around The World. We share that good news with you from Nob Hill, one of the higher points in downtown San Francisco. Well our journey today, Friday, brought us from Winnemucca, Nevada across Nevada and into California and the Sierras. We passed through Reno and then began entering the higher elevations, reaching the highest point of 7,200 feet in the Dotter Pass, the point in history in the early settlement of the West in the United States. We then raced down the mountain in a interesting and challenging motor drive, arriving in Sacramento. The drive from Sacramento to San Francisco was one of the least satisfying driving experiences across the United States. I say that because as a Midwesterner, the expansive interstate highway systems and freeway systems in California are really something with their congestion and so many vehicles. Four to six lanes and cars bumper to bumper. We literally arrived in San Francisco and could see it, but it took a long time to get near it in the congested traffic on the freeway system. We did made it in time to enjoy afternoon tea at the Fairmount Hotel in downtown San Francisco. We have mixed feelings about having arrived. A trip like this is, in many ways, sort of like life in that Carl and I both, in talking it over, have a sense of melancholy that the journey has come to an end, at least this stage of it. Rather than being elated that we had just traveled across the United States in 2 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes, less than three days, we were reminiscing that while we were satisfied with our accomplishment, it didn't feel all the best that we had to end and stop what was really an interesting process. But, we know, as you do, that it is our intent to carry on and the process for this particular journey is just beginning. The 1954 Packard, after a send off ceremony that's being planned here in downtown San Francisco for tomorrow morning, will go into some final conditioning and tune-up preparation by Alan Bobilott and his team in Eureka, California. The send off and welcome event is scheduled to take place at the San Francisco Public Library, a new and very impressive building here. That will be tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. A number of local radio stations and the newspapers in the Bay area have been invited to come to the outside area of the public library where we'll be officially departing from and heading for the Oakland Docks where a ship will transport the automobile to the seaport in China. That journey will take three weeks in transit, all together four weeks with the loading and unloading process of the vehicle. The automobile performed really remarkably well in very demanding conditions of the high altitude and the extraordinary heat. The heat that was evident all the way from New York right across the entire United States. Temperatures ranging from no less than 100 degrees, at times up to 120 degrees. Upon arriving in the San Francisco area there was quite a dramatic change in weather - 62 degrees for Friday's temperature and 70s forecasted to be the high on Saturday. Our visit to San Francisco has included an opportunity to have an Italian dinner at a restaurant of Carl's choosing. You can certainly tell that San Francisco is quite a fascinating, different and exciting place just by people watching. We were sort of struck by a young man who was walking an out of the ordinary dog. The dog was orange in color, and I seem to recall it was a poodle like dog. The young man was sort of a punk type appearing fellow and had the proper apparel for the punk look, including a ring. But the ring was not in a place I had never seen before. It wasn't on his ears, or his tongue, or other places. The ring was in his nose. The combination of the ring in the nose and the orange dog made for quite an impression and reminded one that things are different all over. And he probably looked at us and said, why wouldn't they just take an airplane instead of driving two, almost three days across the United States. We thank you for your interest in coming along with us and celebrate the fact that we've accomplished what we set out to do. We've received numerous communications on the Internet web site from friends and family all over the country. It has been really quite remarkable to watch the "Guest Book" on the Internet site be used by so many to express their feelings and in later updates we'll share some of those. We also had another technological wonder occur and that was the reception of fax communications while the car was underway. And in fact, today we received faxes in the car from our friend Louie Andrew, Jeff Gerstner from Ernst and Young, Milwaukee, and from Dr. Jim Avery in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who was kind enough to comment on a few aches and pains we that were experiencing in the confinement of the automobile. All those communications came in by fax to the car using the cellular telephone technology. To be driving down the highway and to be receiving faxes in a moving car is quite an experience. I recall at one moment in the desolate part of Nevada when Carl was putting the car through its paces and had the speed up to quite a high level, a fax was coming in. One couldn't help but wonder if the faster the car went, if that would in some way interfere, interrupt or degrade the quality of the fax, but it didn't change at all. Technology is playing quite a part in our experience here, as well as the interaction we experience when we come in contact with people who ask about the car and want to tell stories about their old family cars and their car collection. Had a great experience so far and much more is yet to come. We really believe that this was a very good tune-up and in fact, it has given us more confidence in the equipment, more confidence in our own ability to do what we think our goal should be in the trip Around the World and that is to arrive in Paris. We appreciate the support of our families and the friends we've met along the way in helping us accomplish this portion of our trip Around The World and are happy to be able to share this experience with you. Stay tuned for further updates as we embark on the second leg of our journey Around The World, from Peking to Paris.