Hoppingcrow asked me to take this traveler back to the midwest with me.
Crow may be five-foot-nothin' in elevator shoes, and weigh 80 or 90 pounds in soaking wet clothes . . . but one does not say "no" to the crow.
So it looks like I'll have a traveling companion on my way back to the Chicago area. I'll try to get it into a well-visited cache or into the hands of someone who can help it get some miles.