Aside from his trip to Seattle, Vargas only rarely left this corporate fortress. Although he did travel, some, to conduct religious services. Angie had dug up a documentary tridcast on the Path of the Sun that showed Vargas in his ceremonial gear, conducting a ritual in a small Aztlan town that had been hard hit by drought. The ceremony involved Vargas pricking his hands with a cactus spine and "raining" a few drops of blood on the parched soil. According to the tridcast, it had worked. The rains came the next day.