I lead a pretty serendipitous life, and, in spite of its ups and downs, I'm really grateful for that. For some reason, that flow of serendipity just seems to accelerate on tour. Instead of walking down the street and thinking, "four leaf clover", then leaning over and picking one up, I walk down the street looking for cheap dinner and see plants growing all over a building and think, "man, I really need to go in there" and suddenly I have free dinner... not just for me, but my entire band.
This was the case tonight, and I have to say with the way things have been going so far, this is shaping up to be the best tour I've ever been on. Tonight our little crew walked into a foliage covered restaurant in Nelson called, El Taco. We were tired and hungry and needed to eat in a hurry. Greeted at the door by the lovely, Justine, she informed us that the restaurant was closed for their staff party, but they had made way too much food and that we should join them. And so, we enjoyed a lovely Indian/Thai dinner in a Mexican restaurant with a group of complete strangers who then poured us beautiful coconut and rum concoctions to keep us warm on our way. A few of them even made it down to our show afterward.
The show was great. It was a nice turnout for a Sunday. My friend, Lisa, came out and brought a bunch of her friends. and we encountered quite possibly one of the best sound engineers in western Canada. (Jacob, you rock!) And this morning, at a restaurant in Osoyoos, I was accosted by our waitress, who demanded to know what I was doing traveling around with five men. I told her they were my harem, but then her eyes got really big and I don't think she got the joke, so we filled her in on the actual details to put her mind at ease.
In the grand scheme of life, there are days when the world kicks my ass harder than I could ever explain, but then there are days like today when the universe just sits there and grins like a big-ass Cheshire cat and I have to grin right back.
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