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That worked.

And where it started to come apart was in the details.

And the first problem was financial.

Because before leaving Germany, Egbert had arranged for his bank in Dresden to wire $1,500 to a Bank of America branch in San Clement.

A fairly standard procedure for international travel at the time.

But the transfer was set to the wrong location.

So the funds arrived at a Los Angeles branch he had no practical way to access.

And he found himself in the United States significantly short of what he had budgeted for.

So from Las Vegas on July 21st, staying at the Treasure Island Hotel, he faxed Heike Weber's, Georg's mother, or his ex-partner.

partner requesting that she wire additional funds to cover the shortfall, but she would not respond.

And the exact nature of that silence is not documented anywhere.

But what is documented is that the money never came and that Egbert and Cornelia pressed on without it.

So Egbert had just asked the woman at the center of his ongoing custody dispute to help him on a trip he had specifically planned as an escape from that dispute.

And she said nothing, which isn't

Totally surprising.

There's some bad blood there, I think.

But nonetheless, absolutely sucked for Egbert and his family traveling in a completely different country.

But what's weird is that her son, Georg, was there with him, with Egbert, his father.

So you'd think that she would at least want to take care of him and make sure he was good, but she just didn't answer.

So the rejection had to land on multiple levels at once.