waiting
Oct 2 Toronto - San Fran - Sydney.
"The road" for a band is paved with waiting. Let's add up a typical day on the road, when there is a show:
Soundcheck: 1 hr
Gig: 2 hrs
Meals: 3 hrs
Sleep: 8 hrs
Total: 14 hrs.
That leaves roughly 10 hours a day of pretty much waiting, whether it be travelling, or just waiting at some location. With no other real obligations, that's a lot of sitting around. One could write a book, or a bunch of songs, excercise or blog, but for many of us it means just simply sitting or standing like a turnip or some comparable vegetable. It's probably a miracle that we don't smoke.
During this flight, to add to the regular course of waiting, we had a ten hour layover in San Francisco. I could think of many worse cities to have such a predicament.
On this day, the SF Giants were playing the SD Padres, a tempting prospect especially for Mark, the band's biggest baseball fan. With a prohibitive pricepoint for tickets, especially at this point in the season (and our careers), we put down just $42, and rented a car (incl. complimentary AM/FM for baseball) and drove downtown. I convinced the boys to walk up around the Golden Gate Bridge itself, which was as usual covered in fog. Then we headed over to Twin Peaks, Mission and Castro districts, and finally settled for some mexican food before going back to the airport to wait some more.
BTW free internet at SF airport, yay! We will discover later that this is an incredible luxury, especially by Australian standards, where free internet is something you can only get when purchasing food at McDonald's.
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