seen from the side of the road...

So. We are sitting on the side of the road in one of the worlds most beautiful places, Tofino, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. And let’s just say the last few days have brought us quite an adventure!

The reason we’re currently sitting in a line on the side of the road is that we’re waiting for the AAA people to arrive. Our very spunky, enormous American vehicle has decided to bite the dust and now only makes a clicking sound instead of that previously comforting full throttle revhead ignite that signified the beginning of each new days journey. So we’re stuck. Like glue. In the worlds most beautiful town. We’ve got fresh plumbs, chewing gum, chips and a delightful view, so it’s hard to be unhappy in this situation, but we would quite like to get moving again!

The reason we’re here? We had a shitty day on Thursday – everything we touched went wrong wrong wrong. I was supposed to be doing a radio interview and just as we clicked on the telephone went dead, so I rang back on Skype (feeling so technical) which turned out to be absolutely useless, and ended up driving madly around the streets looking for a public phone to get this interview off the ground. I finally found one, which was a cross between a telephone and a bus stop, and I’m so sorry to the people who have to hear the interview because most of it sounds like I was departing on a space shuttle. Let’s just say the day sucked. Sophie and I discovered we had left some of our equipment behind at the last gig, Sam slipped on a pebble, and I actually fell over in a pharmacy into a whole shelving unit of shampoos and deodorants which went flying all over the shop and took a chunk out of my achelies heel! And to top it off, when Sam phoned the venue for our next show on Saturday night to check a few details they had no idea we were planning to play at their venue! Which left us with a couple of nights off…

So we decided to capitalise on our new found weekend and fanged up the coast to have ourselves a little trio adventure. And it has been such a beautiful ride – through mountains and valleys, over rivers and around lakes. We wound up in Tofino last night to eat sushi on the balcony while the sun set like a picture between the silhouettes of island mountains. Today we took a walk on the beach, and strode off the extra American sugar we’ve consumed, and now, here we are, waiting for some one who knows something about cars to get us some how back on the road so we can make it to our gig in Vancouver tomorrow night!

Our spirits are up, and we’re looking forward to getting back on the road. Everyone is driving past us in cars that work, which is a little galling, but Sam has the mandolin out and we are giving ourselves up to the moment we’re in and the tan we’re getting, waiting for AAA. Musician life is certainly an adventure!

Signing off,

Rescue me, Rosie