I started planning a firm and sensible itinerary for the first leg of my trip this week. Things like dates for accommodation, flights to Calgary, bus tickets to Fernie etc. This evening, after discovering some new information on my usual interweb journeys, I basically lit my original plan on fire and stomped on the ashes. The cause? A spontaneous decision over a band - obviously.
I have been reckless before when it comes to live music. I once flew to Melbourne on a whim on my own for four days to catch "the Australian gig of a lifetime". This time however I've stepped things up a notch or two. I'm flying across three Canadian Provinces after getting off my 19 hour trans-Pacific flight, putting my "get a job on a ski hill" plan back by about 10 days but obviously all the while reveling in the fact that I'm going to make good on something I've regretted not doing all year. If I hadn't of been a sook I would have trekked to Melbourne or Sydney to see Tool in January after Big Day Out. Obviously, I was a sook and have spent all year being ashamed of myself.
So now I have an equally firm, highly unreasonable, but ever so exciting itinerary. Fly into Vancouver, fly out of Vancouver to Saskatoon via Calgary. Stay in Saskatoon and surroundings for 10 days, after 10 days - see Tool. Leave Saskatoon in total and fulfilled bliss only rivaled perhaps by Buddha himself, fly back to Calgary, get on a bus, arrive in Fernie 6 days late however, as I said, totally blissful.
I'm hoping this trend of doing things spontaneously simply because it makes me ridiculously happy and excited to be alive doesn't stop any time soon.
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I had a notification message on facebook this morning saying that you're going to see Tool and I had this brief moment of excitement thinking they're coming back to Aus...I'm so jealous!! It will be totally worth your while to rearrange your trip for them.
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