Thanks to the all-important support team that made this journey so much more interesting and enjoyable than we dared expect: Kirsty Brooks, Ginjer Buchanan, Chris Cerasi, Leland Chee, Richard Curtis, Nydia Dix, Sam Dix, Nick Hess, Christopher McElroy, the Mount Lawley Mafia, Ryan Pope, Michael Potts, the SA Writers’ Center, Kim Selling, Sue Rostoni, Stephanie Smith, and Walter Jon Williams. We would particularly like to single out Greg Keyes, Jim Luceno, and Shelly Shapiro for helping (with apparently boundless patience) tie so many threads together. From a continent that sometimes feels far, far away indeed, ta muchly.