Nice to be home, isn’t it?  The normalcy, the comfort of the most familiar surroundings; its almost peaceful.

Yet, note the date and time noted above.  It’s 12:30PM here, which makes it 11AM in Rochester, NY, where GBS is slated to hit the stage at 8PM.  See the problem?  Not so serene here at the kitchen table in Coastal Newfoundland when the Itinerary says you are supposed to perform in Upstate New York in 9 hours.

And last I checked, we did not have a GBS Jet.   That’s a bit beyond the Folk Band budget.

Environment Canada issued a wind warning yesterday afternoon and we went through our usual poor weather protocol.  This kind of thing is standard procedure if you want to live in Newfoundland and travel for work 12 months a year.  Air Canada usually delays all the flights and Manager Louis and Travel Guru Sheila protect us on other flights and Airlines etc.   All through the evening and into the night and into the morning, all hands booked and rebooked but to little success.  Since 4am, I have been booked on Air Canada, WestJet, Continental, and SunWing.

So far, Mother Nature has shagged the works of them and I am typing from the aforementioned kitchen table.  Molly looks confused.

We were to fly out of YYT at 7AM and meet the bus and lads in Toronto at around 9:30 EST and make the leisurely jaunt across the order for a noon-ish arrival in Rochester.   Everyone made the rendezvous except Sean, Bob, Glen, and myself.  So the bus has rolled on without us and we are hoping the 2:30 SunWing Flight will get us to Toronto by 5PM EST, where we’ll rent a car, and drive some 267 kilometers in rush hour, with a border crossing, in an attempt to make the 8PM curtain call.

Betcha we make it.

Cheers,
Alan