I'm not generally inclined to panhandling here but after Netroots Nation our treasury is tapped and we've got a new friend who could really use a bus ticket home.
So, please look below the fold for my virtual change cup shaking.
(This is DONE thanks to Kossack Claude :-)
We found Jamaican immigrant Omar Evans by the side of the road as we left Netroots Nation. I wrote about the experience in The Immigrant's Travails.
We camped the first night, we spent our second night in Denver with Ministry of Truth and Colorado is the Shiznit, and Omar made truly wonderful Jamaican style chicken with beans and rice. Today we're making the thousand mile run back to Champaign from Denver, he'll spend the night with us, and then the trouble begins.
While we've been driving he has been on the phone with family, one of whom is a Greyhound driver with a Cleveland to New York route. If he can be there Thursday afternoon he's got a ride all the way home. There's just a small problem of the five hundred mile air gap between our destination and where he needs to be.
I'd normally just make a few calls and see if some locals would come across with a portion of the $88 ticket cost, but we're not the only ones on the road right now and I know everybody is tapped. So there it is ... please help.
We need the $88 web fare price Greyhound ticket from the Champaign Urbana terminal to Cleveland, Ohio under the name of Omar Evans. We'll feed him, pack him a lunch, and press a few dollars into his hands for incidentals - all that's missing is the ticket to ride.