disregard my previous post... I just received an email from an American guy... who oddly enough used to live at Addison & Southport... anyway, HE HAS MY PEN DRIVE!  It is lost no more.  I feel confident that he will send it to me, like he has promised, when he returns home from South America.  And I have promised him good Cubs tickets (Nunu will surely provide) as a thank you.

You just may have heard my sigh of relief.... all the way from Chile...  PHEW!

I have had a great time in the Chilean part of the Lake District.  I leave tomorrow for El Bolson, a hippie haven with hang-gliding and trekking galore.  CAN'T WAIT!

Until next time.... oh, one final note:   BELIEVE IN THE GOODNESS OF OTHERS.  I do!   -steph