Now, that's close to California. So we hoop-dee-doo'd there. And when you'd hitchhike, though, you'd break off in twos, because most cars couldn't fit four people. So as twos, we were coming back, got into the area was late at night, signed-in and pretty soon I can see there's an emergency telegram for Enrietti. It's at the Red Cross officer- office. And I told a person that was taking in our registrations. He said, 'Yeah, they've been looking for you today.' Anyway, I said, 'Boy, I'd like to see that emergency telegram.' He said, 'Well, it's kinda late. I'll call the officer of the day.' Cuz he's in charge like in the nights, officer of the day. There's one of them appointed, not as regular job but he'd be the officer of the day, if something happened like this or anything else. He'd come there. So, he came to the barracks that I was signing in, or it was a squadron headquarters that I was signing in, and he says a little 2nd lieutenant came there and an MP. They came there and I told him the problem. 'Whoa,' he said, 'We'll go down to the Red Cross Office and get your telegram.' So went down there and my grandmother had died. They wanted me home for the funeral. Now on those days, you were lucky if you got home if your parents died, especially being that far away. But the little 2nd lieutenant, he said oh, the Red Cross officers, said, 'We'd have to wake up the, the, there's a squadron headquarters. Let's put it that way. But he says kind of late in the red or the little 2nd lieutenant said in emergency, the officer of the day can sign emergency furloughs. Oh, you can? He says, 'Yep.' 'You've got the papers?' He said, 'Yes.' He starts filling out things, the papers and I didn't realize that I was in Michigan, but another 600 miles north. So he was giving me so many days off. I said, 'Well, I'd never make it that far.' So they increased it so I'd have enough time. I go by train to Chicago. From Chicago, you go by train up to here. So all that's going good. I got my papers, $200 from the Air- from the Red Cross Officer, on a loan, I had to pay that back. And he, the officer told the MP to bring him back to the office and to bring me to my barracks and get my travel bags all packed up and ready and go and then you bring him into Tonopah to get the bus to the train, that was coming in there to Salt Lake City. So I come into the barracks, he turns on the lights and you're not supposed to have lights on after nine o'clock and everybody's hollering, 'Shut those damn lights off or we'll be written up!' And pretty soon they notice that the MP with me. 'Enrietti, what the hell did you do the MPs got you?' 'Got an emergency furlough.' 'Oh, mother or dad?' I said, 'my grandma.' 'Oh, you don't, you don't get an emergency furlough for mothers- or grandmas, lucky you get one for your parents.' I said, 'Shut up. I'm going.' So I went and got my bags packed, and with the MP, he's taken me into town to the bus station in Tonopah. And while we're traveling along, he says, 'Flyboy, he says I hate to bust your bubble, but I don't know if you know it or not, but not- there's no money that I- nobody that I know, that got an emergency furlough for a grandmother or grandfather dying. Very few got it for the parents dying.' But he said. 'I hate to burst your bubble,' he said, 'but when you get in Salt Lake City, there's going to be an MP there. Or the sheriff if we don't have MPs there, and they're going to get you and they're going to take your emergency furlough, and they're going to tear it up. And they're going to give you another one to get back to the base.' He said, 'I shouldn't tell you this,' but he says, 'My job is to get you to Tonopah to the bus station, and that's what I'm going to do.' But he said 'Don't tell anybody but take my advice and don't take that bus.' 'What am I going-' He says, 'Your finger, hitchhike. Take a cab out to the main highway, hitchhike.' Which I did. Now this is still in the nighttime. Getting close to morning. But the first ride I got was- I took a cab from there to the main highway outside of Tonopah. Start hitchhiking and a big 18-wheeler stopped and picked me up. 'Where you going?' I said, 'To Chicago.' He said, 'I'm not going to Chicago. But from when you get to the next intersection, that's where I got to turned off, but he said, 'You're going to get a lot more traffic there.' Long story short, I got a ride from- it happened to be a doctor with a- those days they made cars painted up pretty good. It was in a Packard, four-door Packard and he was a doctor and he stopped me. He asked me where I was going. He said, 'Emergency furlough?' Yes. And I said I got to get to Chicago to get the train up to Northern Michigan. 'Whoa,' he says, 'Oh, by the way, can you show me your emergency furlough papers?' In my pocket.