"But there’s still one thing that continues to nag me after all these years  - how the hell did Dave track me down 3,000 miles away from home after midnight

"But there’s still one thing that continues to nag me after all these years  - how the hell did Dave track me down 3,000 miles away from home after midnight on that hot summer’s eve in Bristol, Connecticut?" Assuming the author flew cross-country from California and his brother had a phone number in the family name, it doesn't seem too hard to piece together with good old fasioned detective work - on top of good old fashioned databases open to the NSA. I wonder if Dave got it right on the first call?