4/11/08 – A-Frame Gallery, Sioux Lookout, ON

Being a person with little to no fashion sense, with a complete indifference towards home electronics, and living in a cheap old house on the wrong side of the tracks, there’s not much on which I’d need to spend my hard-earned cash. Luckily for me, I’m a musician, and those tricky decisions regarding what to do with my next thou rarely come up.

Still, I’m learning that being in this business requires a certain cannibalistic acceptance of where the moola is going. Right back in, baby!

So Darren and I have hit the road again and all I’m thinking about is that we’ve got to buy my beloved vehicle, Enjie, a new set of tires. The ol’ gal needs to be pampered every once in a while too! And when my father learned that I had driven through BC in December on 70,000 km old all-season tires, he was rightfully shocked. (He was less shocked when he heard about our adventure in Rossland)

But despite the fact that she has no diamonds on the soles of her shoes, she still cleans up nice and is very presentable. We went for a good long drive today and ended up in Sioux Lookout at the fantastic A-Frame Gallery. If you’re looking for some sweet folks to spend time with, it’s well worth it to veer 70 kms off the Trans-Canada to visit this community. Some of the best huggers around, and eagerly generous with them too!

Some new friends offered their home to us while they were gallivanting down south (Brian/Andrea – were you gallivanting? Business-ing?) so doors were left unlocked and beds were made up for us. Happily no chairs were broken in the absence of the home’s usual dwellers, but that might be because I’ve never been a huge fan of porridge. Hmm…

On that potentially puzzling note, I will sign off on the first blog posting of my April 2008 tour. Let’s see how far I get this time…