Tour Day 2: Chicago and the best people in the world

What one storm can do to a tour!  Biblical rains hit Chicago yesterday and early today. I was stuck for three hours at, of all places, Ronald Reagan National. For a time my flight to Chicago was canceled and then it was merely very late.

The turnout was low but reader Paul M. Davis, Cell Stories’ Dan Sinker and Liz and the rest of the fantastic staff of Quimbys made the most of it and we all commiserated about the damned if you do, damned if you don’t nature of readings. The consensus: a combination of a city shell shocked from hail and the fact that Lost was on. Light drinking ensued and “that day” of the tour was turned around by having a great time with good people, which is the only reason I do these things.

If anyone is looking for me I’m in San Francisco for two days, avoiding airports and road food. Then…Los Angeles on Friday.