Riding on the ferry with Sophie and Rosie is an experience I tell ya. We’re on our way over to Vancouver island now to play 4 shows before we head back down the I – 5 to fly to Chicago. We’ve had a dream run so far, playing the amazing shows, making the many U-turns, meeting the fantastic people and eating the…..well, interesting food. Actually the food has been n e r r.f d c jfbjfbwdf 3ebfw.keb.kwjebffb kjbrlfqdc jfbvejbdc q.kjfrjfb. Whoops, ferry is rocking a bit. Where was I?.Yes, the food has actually been pretty amazing as well as incredibly interesting. By interesting I mean mainly the gas station food on the concrete jungle that is the I-5. Rosie being vegan has encountered a few inedible and unidentifiable objects masquerading as food.

However, mostly, what we have found so far is that the people have been so incredibly generous, baking us pies and cooking us pancakes and vegan and vegetarian feasts. We’ve even managed to fit a bbq in in this short time we’ve been here. So now we’re on the ferry having waved goodbye to Seattle and Mel Watson (our booking agent and saviour).

We swapped Mel for an extremely helpful, friendly and positive (even more so than Sophie) GPS device and have dramatically reduced our number of U-turns. We’ve named it Stacy. She tells us when to turn, when to exit and even when we’ve reached our destination, all with a voice of sultry gentility. We like her a lot and all agree that we’d take her out for dinner (if only we knew where she lived).

Signing off. Sea faring Sam.