I think this is a great idea: We should all put in our travel notes. I forgot who entered the bay area surplus shops and hamfests, but thank you! If you are stuck in Denver, you may need some fuel, and I recommend the Tortilla Flat mexican restaurant in lLittleton; The Blue Parrot Italian in Louisville. It all my travels, the best surplus place I have ever been to is Mendelssohn Electronics in Dayton, Ohio. A huge old building downtown, loaded with things you never see anywhere else. I got a IBM plug board there, I think it belonged to a card reader sorter. It was still all wired up with the last program and I spent many hours trying to figure out what it did. In Albuquerque there is a place called the Black Hole, I have not been there yet, but I have herd so much about this place and its eccentric owner. He gets all kinds of weird things from the Los Alamos lab and sometimes to their embarrassment when somebody later figures out what the item was, or was used for. Im headed back through in a month, and I'll be sure to write it up. On the way, I plan to stop at the aircraft boneyard and Titian missle silo in Tucson: http://www.pimaair.org/index.php Let us know what other cool stuff you have found! Randy _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008