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Have you ever had a flight straight-up cancel and leave you in your layover city overnight? Of all the traveling I’ve done, this was my first!

I was stuck in Phoenix last night and I’m still in Phoenix, waiting for an ever-delayed replacement flight to join Lucy Bellwood & Erika Moen in California. On the bright side, outlets are everywhere, so I can power my iPad while I sketch little dumb things on it, and I’m nearly done re-reading one of my favorite books, Patti Smith’s M Train, a memoir/diary style book “about nothing,” following Smith in her 60s as a filthy old cat lady alone in New York, traveling on whims, writing in cafes, and remembering love lost. I picture myself living her life in 20 years. I told my childhood best friend Adam (Darren’s muse) that this book is required reading for him and anyone else who wants to be in my life til I die.

Erika asked if this drawing was inspired by someone at the airport, but it’s really me, crying while reading M Train, which seems to hit its most heartbreaking notes every time an attendant stops at my aisle and asks if I’d like something to drink. I fear I seem really regretful of my ginger ale choice every time.

If this new flight didn’t work out I was going to rent a car and drive myself and an accountant/nomad/stripper named Olivia I met last night - Santa Barbara is only 6 hours away - but our plane just arrived, so I think this is where my hijinks end for the day. I’m good with no more hijinks for a little while. I just wanna see my girls. <3