Driving and driving and driving . . .
After a day of driving around the Rockies we eventually left Canmore, AB, around 9pm on Monday night to start the drive toward Ottawa, with the intention of getting there sometime before Friday night for the show with Alex and Neil.
That night, I drove until around 1:30am when we arrived in Medecine Hat, AB. It was windy and rainy. Lovely driving conditions. We then parked Doris behind a 24-hr Shell station and slept for a few hours. At around 6am I got up and went inside to have a greasy breakfast and down some coffee. Then we started driving again, and made it to Winnipeg around 7pm that night. We had dinner with Roddy and Judy, and then slept, awaking to the wonderful sound of Moe's cellphone alarm around 7am. We started driving again, and drove and drove and drove until we were somewhere in the rocky hills of Northern Ontario and I was getting sleepy. We pulled into a funny little motel in a tiny village called Shreiber, or something like that. We drank some wine, watched some Lost and I fell asleep shortly after. We got up early again the next day and left around 8:00, hoping to make it to Ottawa that night. We almost made it. We drove and drove and drove and then ran into wet snow and slush. After we passed North Bay it got worse and worse until we had to pull over, a few hours away from Ottawa, close to Deep River. We found a cheapy hotel and checked in.
This hotel was awesome in it's funkiness. The TV was straight out of 1981, UHF, probably a 13 inch screen. There were 70's patterned patches on the walls, and the carpet was also circa 1978, I believe. There were no phones in the rooms, and definitly no wireless internet connection. We had some snacks and watched the two channels we received, and then passed out.
Friday we slept in for the first time in a long time. We didn't leave the motel until around noon, it was awesome. We arrived in Ottawa a few hours later, and found Alex and Jeremy and his friend Tema downtown. Then we ate, and then we rocked! The show at Cafe Nostalgica was packed and a good time was had by all. Our friend Rozalind MacPhail came by to jam out some flute tunes with us, and Alex and Neil and Steve surprised me by learning one of my songs off myspace to play with me - So Tired. It was pretty damned cool.
Today we're heading back to Montreal to see our friend Lisa Shalom play with her percussion group somewhere downtown - it's going to be interesting to see if we can actually find it. :)
So here we are, almost home, almost out of money . . . and so glad to be around old friends!
See yas all soon,
Drea
p.s. I'm going to be opening for Air Traffic Control at Baba's on May 10th. Be there!
That night, I drove until around 1:30am when we arrived in Medecine Hat, AB. It was windy and rainy. Lovely driving conditions. We then parked Doris behind a 24-hr Shell station and slept for a few hours. At around 6am I got up and went inside to have a greasy breakfast and down some coffee. Then we started driving again, and made it to Winnipeg around 7pm that night. We had dinner with Roddy and Judy, and then slept, awaking to the wonderful sound of Moe's cellphone alarm around 7am. We started driving again, and drove and drove and drove until we were somewhere in the rocky hills of Northern Ontario and I was getting sleepy. We pulled into a funny little motel in a tiny village called Shreiber, or something like that. We drank some wine, watched some Lost and I fell asleep shortly after. We got up early again the next day and left around 8:00, hoping to make it to Ottawa that night. We almost made it. We drove and drove and drove and then ran into wet snow and slush. After we passed North Bay it got worse and worse until we had to pull over, a few hours away from Ottawa, close to Deep River. We found a cheapy hotel and checked in.
This hotel was awesome in it's funkiness. The TV was straight out of 1981, UHF, probably a 13 inch screen. There were 70's patterned patches on the walls, and the carpet was also circa 1978, I believe. There were no phones in the rooms, and definitly no wireless internet connection. We had some snacks and watched the two channels we received, and then passed out.
Friday we slept in for the first time in a long time. We didn't leave the motel until around noon, it was awesome. We arrived in Ottawa a few hours later, and found Alex and Jeremy and his friend Tema downtown. Then we ate, and then we rocked! The show at Cafe Nostalgica was packed and a good time was had by all. Our friend Rozalind MacPhail came by to jam out some flute tunes with us, and Alex and Neil and Steve surprised me by learning one of my songs off myspace to play with me - So Tired. It was pretty damned cool.
Today we're heading back to Montreal to see our friend Lisa Shalom play with her percussion group somewhere downtown - it's going to be interesting to see if we can actually find it. :)
So here we are, almost home, almost out of money . . . and so glad to be around old friends!
See yas all soon,
Drea
p.s. I'm going to be opening for Air Traffic Control at Baba's on May 10th. Be there!
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