Our GPS has a few options, and accidentally choosing shortest route (not the fastest route) was on the bottom of a good decisions list. They could label that option as: 'Crawl speed with unsuspected ferries route'. I guess most people have a relationship with thier personified GPS. Trusting and blind-love like, until she or he lets you down when you're at a dead end road and your taunted with the words, "you have arrived at your destination."
Venues can be like that too... a dead end road, where you trust them to lift you and your music higher, looser and sweeter. Trusting and blind-love like, we hope that the venue fits and that it is packed. But of course, there are hiccups, bumps in the road, or 'interesting' experiences you hope not to repeat. When leaving Sweden to get back to Germany, we heard about imminent airline strikes and a definite train strike, putting a halt to most peoples' travelling plans. Our plane was an exception and we caught one of the only trains possible to back to Aachen, DE (David shook his head, looked at me with an ounce of disbelief and said, "you live a charmed existence.") Our repaired tour bus was waiting. Not so fast. She wouldn't turn over... like she had rolled over and played dead. Jumper cables to the rescue and a chess game with the fuses, and then we began the last leg. Now it was time for human errors and lessons we hoped to have learned a while back. David got off the bus for a snack, I picked up earrings I forgot in the hotel, and then spent 2.5 hours trying to find him again. Distressed, lost and now late for a radio interview in Hagen, DE, I had to work very hard to stay calm. Stress stayed in my heart and the corners of my eyes for hours. The interview was cool though. So, that was our two days 'off'.
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