BC
Sunday
Nov 18, 2007
What a positive day, today was, even so it wasn’t a circus one but a mechanical resolve. We went to see the peoples of Grey Line in Victoria. Their attitude was reinvigorating.
In one afternoon we fixed so many little problems with the bus that had been bothering us for ages and now we feel that we are ready for another long drive, or at least the bus is. The way I picture it, it is like an old lady (the bus) who is coughing and have a hip problem and maybe an ache in the ankle and she is crying for attention and today the really goods doctors of Grey Line finally, fixed her up.
Anyway, backing up a bit, after Al.
It is only when we reach BC that we started to perform again. First in Kamloop, then in Penticton , where we met with friends from Mexico, Michel and Loraine Castro. We then went to Powell River to meet up with the Morgansten family, with who we had traveled together for a bit in Mexico. We stayed with them over two weeks. Stephan helped us fix the wood burner pipe, so we are now warm and cozy. They also helped us organize a few show in the area. We ate lots of yummy oysters with them. We felt sad and disoriented when we left for Victoria, which is where we are now.
Monday we will go to Vancouver and back to the States, on the West coast this time
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Friday
Oct 12, 2007
In the last two weeks, we just drove, drove. The highlight of our trip was meeting Al, which we met through a spectator of our show in Toronto that gave us his address as a place to stop. Well, he ended up being much more than that. His house was voted the best house ever by the Sprockets, Theo didn’t want to leave. Al is one of a kind, in a good way. Any positive adjective that you can think of, he probably deserve them. It is only unfortunate that there are no more people like him on earth. Because we left with his DVD, his CDs and his book, he ended being with us much of the trip, not only did we have so much fun watching his movie but we had his CDs playing every night and Theo knows nearly all of his songs by heart. I can only wholeheartedly recommend to anyone reading this to purchase them, and if you do buy the DVD, leave it on pause for a while on the disk menu and watch. www.alsimmons.com
We are now finally in BC. It has been so cold at night that we’ve had to put the oven on in the evening. Because Jo has left, I am now doing home schooling with Theo which mean that I pretty much became a week-end driver.
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ON THE ROAD
Tuesday
Sep 25, 2007
After travelling for three years (since first arriving in Central America) in the company of Jo, Theo’s school tutor and our technician, it was very sad to see him leave on Saturday at the airport of Montreal. So sad in fact that we couldn’t stay behind, in Montreal, and decided to go back on the road straight away, direction West.
After an other stop at our friends Dave and Mary, where we pickup Theo school work and a few letters from Europe, we are now driving, driving, driving….
It is a long way to BC
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Quebec,the town, was amaizing and it is really only the cold that made us decide to head toward British Colombia.
We were able to park on the Marina, thanks to Patto and Julie, who also have been travelling for the past ten years doing shows, and the last few of them, in a sailing boat.
All the artist there made us feel really welcome and the circus school opened their door to us.They, also, were very warm people. It felt like such a luxury to be able to train all week in this beautifull space , and to be taught Flying trapeze by Pierre and Guy. We didn’t want to leave anymore but The dreadfull cold…
After Quebec, meeting with Marie Claude Bouillon from la Luna Caballera, and working with her for the village fiesta of Notre Dame du Rosaire, was a very enriching and pleasing experience.
We are now on the way to Montreal
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we are now back in Quebec as the first time around, we only crossed it to be in time for Kingston.
After the stress of the big city of Toronto, we needed some fresh air and some nice people to surround us so we could reenergised.
What best then to go and stay with Mary and Dave from Avalon motor and even better when our friend Mamsel (which we met in Mexico) and her friend Simon decided to visit us on that same night. They ended up staying 6 days and we had a lovely time.
Leaving on Saturday afternoon made it hard to organise a show for the week end, but late on Sunday we found a campground and were able to do our show that same night.
It was a lazy drive to Sherbrooke with lots of stops for swims, golf and lunches.
We are now meeting other artists and trying to decide our futur step. Will we brave a winter here or head West or even better South??
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Ontario,Canada
Wednesday
Aug 15, 2007
Scott, poor Scott, spent his first night ever in a gell and even had to be handcuft on his way there even so he was perfectly willing to follow. The reason was that after driving a whole day, he had a few brandy with friend in his home and was arested on his way back to the bus on his bicycle. That was our welcoming to Bancroft, I do have to press on the point that he wasn’t rowdy or insulting to anyone, his only mistake was the little bit of weaving he was doing on his bicycle, so when the police are arresting totaly honest people, it does make you wonder where the world is going…
Still after that everything went well in Bancroft and the two show we did in the Millenium park were very well received by the audience.
After that we spent a nice few days on our friends land, Dave and Mary (Avalon Motors, Belleville) before going and pick up Sally (Scott’s sister) and her childrens, Flora and Ed, at the Toronto airport.
We are now enjoying their visit in the Southern Georgian Bay.
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After the Kingston Busker festival, we wondered around the lake Ontario enjoying a moment where we didn’t have to rush anywhere. As we stoped in Picton to check our mail in the librairy we stumbled upon Cynthia who had seen our show in La Manzanilla, Mexico. She straight away helped us organising a few shows in the Princess Edward County which ended up being quite successfull with a big turn up of people and lovely audiences. But more than anything we were having a great time, swimming in the lake and relaxing.
The best of all was yesturday evenning at our first ever drive in movie. Of course we took the bus which we parked sideway so we could be on any of the bed upstairs whiles watching our movies. Scott and Jo were on the roof, I was on the back bed (smoking room) and Cynthia, Jim (her husband) and Theo were on the front bed. between and before movies we had the table outside with snack and beers. It was great.
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canada
Saturday
Jul 14, 2007
After an other exhausting drive, we finally made it to Kingston where everything is running smothly.
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Maine
Thursday
Jul 5, 2007
Whiles we were in Bangladesh Whittlesey family who took us in their house and pampered us for 4 month as Scott was recovering and we were going through all the stress of shipping the bus. They became like a second family. They now live in Maine
Back in time, the festival in Charleston
We had met so many people in Charleston
On the way to Maine, we went through Charlotte and stayed 3 days with Vic Rabb, probably one of the only person that sells parts for British double Decker bus in USA, and he helped us getting a few bits www.usbusco.com
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We then drove nonstop as David and Regine had organized us a show for the 4th of July. We arrived on the 3rd in the evening, totally exhausted but so happy to be here.
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The Sprockets in the News!
Wednesday
Jun 20, 2007
Just spotted this on the web – It’s a nice article about us posted in the Charlston. http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/may/30/its_real_balancing_act/
Plus and another piece in the Spoleto Today Blog with a brillant short video about us as well. Thank you Dan!
