Thursday September 24, 3:15am (mountain time)
Well, I think I’ve hit my first real glitch in this trip. It’s 3:15 in the morning, and I can’t sleep. I’m being kept awake by music playing outside my room. It’s been going on forever, and I can’t find anyone to turn it off!
I’ve just got back from prowling round the lodge trying to find someone or some way to turn it off. The place is deserted … apart from the Country and Western song wafting through the corridors.
They are even piping the stuff on to the veranda outside the lodge.
Outside! At 3:00 in the morning!
Kessler Canyon, it turns out, is a home from home. It’s unbelievably comfortable and welcoming. The staff is like part of the family, but just like family, they seem to bugger off to bed with everyone else at night, leaving you to your own devices. It’s probably because I arrived last night, but I can’t find anything that tells me what to do in case of an emergency. And believe me, this is an emergency!
Given the quality of the place (and it really is something else), I suspect the folks here will be mortified when they discover my dilemma tomorrow. I’m sure cowboy yodeling (which is what we seem to have at the moment) is not part of the standard guest package.
But with a mere 3 hours before I need to be up, bright and bushy-tailed to take a lead in the day’s discussions, I could do with a little less yodeling, and a little more of that good mountain silence!
And the worst of it – you won’t even be reading this until well after the crisis is over: the lodge’s wireless internet system isn’t working. And I can’t find anyone to fix it …
Update, 4:35am. Still being serenaded. This is a hunting lodge, right? They must have guns somewhere. All I need to do is find one, and then shoot the speakers out … one by one. And they say sleep deprivation clouds the judgement!
Update, 5:25am. Bliss! Got up 20 minutes or so ago with the early morning hunting parties, and found a wonderfully helpful member of staff who managed to find the off switch. It still took him 20 minutes or so to work out how to kill the music. But it’s gone now.
Just enough time to get 30 minutes kip before the alarm goes off …
Update, 5:20pm. Still no internet access. I’m having to relay this blog over the phone to my wife to post on my behalf. At least her spelling is better than mine!
More updates from Kessler Canyon if and when I eventually get connected to the rest of the world.
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Good blog fodder, even if at the expense of your sanity!