Hi Dan,
Thanks for putting the story of your experiences down for us all. And tell Ditty that it is a wonderful world that has people like her in it that believe in the dreams of folks like yourself.
Ditty's support and partnership reminds me very much of my wife Linda's after I developed an incurable itch to own a Fairmont motorcar(a much smaller piece of hardware the a locomotive!), which we have now taken to many interesting places, experiences, and have met many fine people we would never have met otherwise.
Best regards to you both and to Eureka,
Philip