Day 15: No Problem (Las Vegas to Tucson)

After six straight shows, today we had a day off.

My friend had loaned us his Air BNB and we checked our tired limbs in after the gig. Because I'd arranged this with him months ago, I'd been looking forward to this stay. On paper, the plan was solid: Catch up on sleep, rest, eat, pool, and leisurely make our way towards Arizona in the evening.

Then the water went out in the apartment complex.

With that, the script.I had imagined was trashed: no home-cooked meal, no early showers, no pool time, hell... no brushing our teeth. Instead of relaxing, we had to spend the morning troubleshooting.

"We could be having real problems," one of my bandmates said.

When situations get irritating, it's easy to lose your cool and assign a sense of cosmic woe-is-me to it all. A measure of maturity is staying calm.

The water didn't come back on until the afternoon. We quickly showered and loaded the van. I wanted to treat myself, to flip the script around once again. I dropped the guys off at a restaurant and set the GPS to a spot I wanted to try.

I got there to find out it had changed locations. Then I sat in traffic for thirty minutes on my way to a different place.Then I had to wait ten minutes in line to get gas.

It was 4 pm by the time I got to a restaurant and I hadn't consumed a calorie yet.

"How are you?" The hostess greeted me, "hungry," I replied.

"We can solve your problem," she smiled.

I Sat and enjoyed my meal. We drove through the night and made it to Tucson 6 hours later to a comfortable hotel room and woke up for a jog in the sun.

No problems at all.