Joe, what an adventure everyone has planned for you! If you did get a bus and wanted it decorated with quilts, you could also have us all sign the quilts painted on the bus as you make your way around the country.
Miriam, maybe he thinks he needs the Pathfinder to go and get the machines, but with all of the publicity on the bus with all of the quilts and pictures of machines, etc , all he'd need would be a big magnet and the machines would find him!
What a fun life that would be!