I advertised Big Red, in 1948 Massey Harris 55, tractor on the Internet. (It's my plane ticket to Thailand.) It brought a number of inquires but the first person to make an offer was PB from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. With the offer accepted we agreed on a date to meet in South Dakota to make the exchange.
On the appointed day PB appeared in Sinai, SD with a pickup truck pulling a trailer he'd had built for such an occasion. He was accompanied by his wife who told me that they had driven 1200 miles to Sinai. They had left home on Sunday and arrived in Sinai on Wednesday.
As we were discussing their trip she said "We both had a week of vacation and were planning to go to the Bahamas until PB found your tractor on the Internet. So we changed our plans and here we are in SD instead of the Bahamas." She told this story with no trace of bitterness or frustration and that's the origin of just a teeny bit of coveting.
Much more could be said; "Why wouldn't one choose SD over the Bahamas?" "Why didn't I ask more for the tractor if someone would go to those lengths to retrieve it?" etc.
