Another Day in Paradise

It's rather easy to take for granted where you live until visiting another part of the country for business and then it starts to sink in: How do people live in places that they're not happy in? Probably has to do with job opportunities or schools that their kids would be upset if they had to relocate while still in a certain class before graduating. Southern California was a fun place to visit bringing back memories of long drives from the bay area just to do ten minutes on stage and then it was back up north to work at whatever it was I was working at. Oh yeah, BAM Magazine I think. Lake Tahoe might not be the best place for steady employment and all but the beauty and its surrounding forests/mountains more than offsets the deficit. Of course I remind myself that when it's the first of the month but being in an environment that is soothing to the soul coupled with a decent living is a far better place to be than say the rat race of a metropolitan city where the pay is much better. A good quality of life is much better than a ton of money but feeling miserable where you live in order to bring home that kind of income. I'll let you know how I feel in a couple of weeks when the bills are due. Maybe I'll go for a walk down to the Lake to again remind myself what it was I was saying.