over the past 5 months- I've spent a grand total of 3.5 weeks in Vancouver (home base), and as a result, moments of music, creativity and normal life have been sparse and usually dependent on being a bit resourceful. I've spent time in Halifax, Edmonton, Toronto, Port Hardy, Terrace and a few other places. Most of these cities have music stores that sell nice guitars. In each of these places, I mislead a poor sales person to think I wanted to buy one of their guitars- and I managed to play "test drive" around on their instuments for up to 2 hours at a time. During this time I got ideas for new songs- and I'm going to try and record them over the next couple of months. I'll post them here when they're done. We live in a massive country, but despite the size, the are commonalities we can all identify with accross the provinces. I'm talking of course about the severe winter weather that owns our land.

JR