The story begins three days late.

We turned right instead of left and ended up driving to Montreal to visit

with Barbara's daughter who had just given birth to Sasha, in a most

difficult manner. Prognosis in progress. Mother and child in life

threatening situation. Upon our 6:15 arrival in Montreal we had the

learning experience of how to put out a fire in the front wheel section of

our car. We had noticed a smell of burning wires and stopped to check.

Flames six to ten inches high engulfed the tire coming up into the engine

section. Moving quickly, we took a small one litter jar and emptied its

contents on the centre of the flame and shouting at Barb to get the five

gallon jug from the trunk of the car. Fortunately for all concerned the

water flowed and the fire stopped. Within minutes of stopping we were

surrounded by two police, a boy on a bicycle two fire trucks and six

firemen. In another few minutes a gentleman from BC who noticed our cars

plates (BC) stopped to see if he could offer assistance. He let us know

the BC insurance rules, and gave some hints as the best way to proceed. By

nine o'clock the car was towed to a repair shop and we had checked into a

hotel for the evening. Whew!.

Saturday was spent in various details of activity relating to the car and

cancelling our proposed dinner date with Arthur Levin a dear friend from a

previous visit to Montreal.

Back in Toronto on Saturday and picking up forgotten materials. Ran into

Bruce Lewis and told him that Norman Evans would be calling in order to

affect an alliance between Batra www.homeplanet.org and Tracker. - a

three way win win situation.

Also ran into Don Rothermell who indicated he did not quite understand my

fax of Tuesday morning, but he offered to look at it in view of the

information I shared with him. I.e. The Ted Turner press conference and

the world citizenship challenge enunciated by Ted Turner on CNN.

Upon learning of Ted's action I immediately wrote a letter to him offering

to work with him. I tried to send the letter through both fax and e-mail.

Both systems did not function. Letter not sent.

Peter Merrill took Barbara and I for dinner at Commensal in Toronto and

then we were off to sleep.