Bumper - I've contacted Sam as you suggested and hope to have a tel talk with him this week. I'm planning a road trip to the US this summer to find a home and have already started prepping my wife for a thorough look at the Tahoe area. That will be the kicker; she thinks we're going to live in or near a big city! I've explained to her that American cities are full of roving gangs and involve a sort of Mad Max II lifestyle. On the serious side I did read a rather bad report of teenage meth use in the Carson Valley area. That's disturbing. See, here in Kazakhstan anybody with something like a meth lab is simply executed, end of story, problem over. Trial lasts about 2 hrs. I sort of like that. Thanks for letting me know about Sam.