Getting back home never felt so good.  It was a long tour, with the highlight being Farm Aid, in Champaign, Illinois.  This was home, Austin Bankruptcy was something looming in the back of our minds.  Michelle wanted to stave it off and push through it.  That was like her.  It was just like how she played.  She grabbed that stick around the neck and made it sing.  Her solos were intense.  It's hard to believe that up until five years ago, Michelle had never played guitar.  She picked it up and, without being able to read a note, began fingering cords.  In no time at all she had taught herself to play the basic cords, and soon after she was getting through a bunch of songs.  Then she went electric.  She had always been a Beatles fan, and had spoken and written about them.  I was not such a big fan of the Beatles.  I liked John Lennon best of the all, because he was pretty freaky.  He couldn't read music either, so I am told. He was a natural.  Michelle like Lennon, too.  On the way back from Champaign, we stopped in Benton, Illinois, and stayed at the "Hard Day's Night " Bed and Breakfast.  George Harrison's sister, Louise, had lived in the house that was now a Bed and Breakfast.  George came to visit her once in the summer of 1963, and had actually sat in with some of the local bands.