Gladstone

OK, lots to report...Where was I...Took a ferry across Kootney lake, the worlds longest free ferry...Picked up Jonah the cherry picker...again...brought him to Creston, BC, slept in a nice rest area off the highway...drove through most of alberta and Saskatchewan in a day, shot a bunch of fun music videos in front of cool motel signs and out in fields...the van died in Swift Current, SK...then revived itself after 5 min...Slept in a Husky parking lot, drove straight through to Elkhorn Manitoba...where, after filling the tank, the van died...and did not revive itself. I played two songs at the Elkhorn Motor lodge Saloon...got paid in Taco slices(don't bother asking what they were... a kitchen experiment, but they were free...) Waited till 10pm, got towed to Winnipeg. We are camped out in the parking lot of a Volkswagon dealership waiting patiently for the service center to re-open and get us a new starter...We walked around this afternoon, asked about cool places to play music...most of Winnipeg went to the lake, so the city is pretty dead...But we walked into a bar, turned out a band had canceled, so I will play there at 9pm. Exciting! Finally, an actual show!

I noticed that we passed two different towns in two different provinces called Gladstone. I used to live on the corner of Gladstone and Kingsway in Vancouver. And there is a Gladstone street in Winnipeg. And i've noticed lots of other names repeating from other places i've been. Its kind of comforting...and at the same time makes me feel like I should google these names at some point and find out who these epic Canadians were.

Thats about it for now. I feel pretty good, since I went for my first shower in three days at the Y. I'm gonna go eat something, then relax and get ready for my show tonight.

Rock on!