It would be far more honest to call this a summary and not a report, in seven weeks so much can happen, and did happen, that it would take a full size doorstopper novel to recount everything properly. My first intention was to write about. each day and what happened in a chronological order with nothing omitted but after I'd written about forty thousand words of first draft with only a handful of days covered it became only too obvious that I was taking the wrong approach. John Berry and his trip report "The Goon Goes West" was partly to blame for this for though it is not the best piece of fan writing I have seen it is most likely the most interesting and I felt that I should do no less of a good job than he. However John had been in the United States for three weeks and we had spent seven weeks there if I included the couple of days leading up to the trip. On an average I found that I was writing five thousand words on each day and a quick mental calculation led me to the conclusion that continuing that way would occupy about a quarter of a million words. I had no intention of writing that much, not to mention publishing it, so there had to be another solution. This report and the manner in which it is presented is that solution, not the best possibly but l leave it up to others to imagine what else I could have done. As I survey the stack of stencils that are the virgin report I can only feel sorry for all that is left out of it, mostly the little incidents which should have been mentioned and would not fit the format. I also wish that there were more larger articles but in the time and space limitations that was not possible. There is simply no way possible of giving a full expression of those glorious seven weaks and I beg you to take this as a humble token and some attempt to repay the kindness of every fan who made the trip possible. Leigh Edmonds