{"id":314,"date":"2011-10-20T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/welcome\/tour-day-22\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:04:00","slug":"tour-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/tour-day-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour: Day 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[due to technical difficulties, this was not posted when it was written, which was roughly 9pm, October 20]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>No photo of my car I&#8217;m afraid. It&#8217;s too dark and rainy outside. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the last day of the Tour. I&#8217;ll be home tomorrow! I fell behind with my blog, but I had a wonderful house concert in Peterborough on Day 9 and one in Toronto, on Day 17 (hosted by the marvelous Sarah Hopen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starcompany.ca\/\">STARCompany<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most of the rest of the trip was visiting people and doing miscellaneous work projects here and there. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now I&#8217;m on my way home and after 1.5 hours of white-knuckle driving in pouring rain and near zero visibility, I am safely ensconced in a motel room. Not the motel I was planning to stay in &#8211; no, the road was closed on the path indicated to me by the Interwebs, so I turned around and came to this motel, which shall remain nameless. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m fascinated by this motel room. Maybe because it&#8217;s my last day on the road and my first really no-name motel. And maybe because it just feels kind of miraculous that I made it here at all.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Things this motel room has:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>an abandoned cell phone charger<\/li>\n<li>a fan<\/li>\n<li>a train that passes nearby and blows its whistle<\/li>\n<li>a bottle of whiskey (I brought that)<\/li>\n<li>supper (improvised with the food I have left in my car at this point in the trip: a granola bar, an apple, almond butter (eaten off the blade of a butter knife) and a handful of walnuts<\/li>\n<li>wifi (sweet)<\/li>\n<li>windows that open<\/li>\n<li>a bathtub<\/li>\n<li>soap<\/li>\n<li>grey towels (I like a place that doesn&#8217;t even pretend to be able-or perhaps willing-to keep white towels white)<\/li>\n<li>fridge and microwave (I think I am atypical of this motel&#8217;s residents; I am not planning to stay for more than one night)<\/li>\n<li>a great pillow (I brought this, too)<\/li>\n<li>a TV (but at least it&#8217;s closed up in one of those cabinets so I don&#8217;t have to look at it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Things this motel room does not have:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>any sign of bedbugs (yay!)<\/li>\n<li>a security lock on the door (I have propped the room&#8217;s only chair under the door knob)<\/li>\n<li>shampoo or conditioner<\/li>\n<li>natural fibres in any of the linens, curtains, etc.<\/li>\n<li>good art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>What can I say? I&#8217;m mostly glad not to be dead in a ditch this evening, but not so high on life that I&#8217;m willing to forego making snarky comments about this motel and pointing out what a glamourous life this sometimes ain&#8217;t.  Now, where&#8217;s that butter knife?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[due to technical difficulties, this was not posted when it was written, which was roughly 9pm, October 20] No photo of my car I&#8217;m afraid. It&#8217;s too dark and rainy outside. This is the last day of the Tour. I&#8217;ll <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/tour-day-22\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,96,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenging-driving","category-the-glamourous-life","category-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}