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The Long Train Home

We said goodbye to our van dwelling friends and caught the train dark and early (it wasn't bright and early because the sun wasn't up yet). We located our room and
immediately went to sleep, we were going to be on this train for 3
days, so it was time to catch up on rest.

The shows on this leg o

East!

Last I typed, we were rolling east in a greyhound bus towards Kamloops, I'll pick up from there. We were dropped off at the bus station, once again not having any clue of how
to get where we were going (at this stop we didn't even really know
where we were going...) so we did what has worked on the west coast
for us; found a starbucks, drank coffee and used free wireless.

When I left off I think I was sitting in a train car in the rain.....

Our only show of the Jasper – Vancouver line was in the back car (the Gold Class), we played for a mixed crowd, literally there were infants, toddlers, kids, teen
agers, 20 somethings, 30 somethings, recent retirees and one
septuagenarian. It was a fun show, a little boy named Johnny kept
stealing the spotlight from us wi

So I'm a bit behind on the old blogsky.... let's see if I can remember....

So we arrived at the Calgary bus station, Wednesday March 24, our friends Josh and Kayla came to pick us up in Kayla's truck, and we headed to Josh's place for some
acoustic jamming. We were scheduled to meet up with Brock Mitchell,

who videos bands for a series called “Shot in the Dark”. We met

up dow

Picking up where I left off, sitting on the train between Winnipeg and Saskatoon.

Our second show of the day was in the classy section at the back of the train, we didn't think our new friends from economy were going to be able to come back and listen,
but they snuck/talked their way back without a problem.