April 21st - Cleveland - Day Off

A day off this early in a tour can be a blessing or a curse. In our case it was a blessing. We needed a day to get focused, centered and ready for the rest of the tour. Big Bill Watterson of Dakota Floyd fame very generously lent us the use of his family’s summer house on Lake Erie and we headed out to get our heads on straight.

Unfortunately, the day was spent drinking, barbecueing and annoying the hell out of each other with the Hammond organ in Bill’s family room. To top it off Pete and I took some Yellowjackets, caffeine pills that promise an increase in energy, performance and a general sense of well being. I found that the label should have promised an increase in jitters, anxiety and diarrhea. We subsequently stayed up until 7 am playing scrabble and wishing we weren’t so dumb. Oh well.

Tomorrow - Columbus!!!