I will be visiting friends in Chicago, as it happens, around about the 19th-22nd July (although I will not be at the con but off in the North Woods camping on that particular weekend!) IF, however, on the 24th or 25th of July (haven't decided which yet) you would like a ride from Chicago towards, say, Detroit -- well, I'll have a space in the car for you. If that fits in which other plans which have yet to unfold. Heh.