A buddy messaged me the other day and said, “Have to say it’s the first time I’ve ever landed in Vancouver to see everything covered in snow.” It was so cold in T.O. my wife wouldn’t let me walk the dog (her concern was for the dog!). And don’t get us started on the rain and fog. Needless to say, winter is wearisome in this country, and there’s so much more to come.

So, I propose that, like the Black Keys sing, the time has clearly come that we all just “Gotta Get Away.”

But unlike the Keys, when we do, I suggest it be somewhere sans snow or cold – and certainly not Kalamazoo.

Lyrics

I got paid when I was on the road
In a heartbeat, mama said mama said
You got a one-track mind, but you ain’t gonna get all the time
She wasn’t lyin’

I went from San Berdoo to Kalamazoo
Just to get away from you
I searched far and wide, hopin’ I was wrong
But baby all the good women are gone

My rent’s down, got used up
On gasoline, know what I mean, what I mean
Atlanta, GA by the end of the day
No other way, that’s what I say

I went from San Berdoo to Kalamazoo
Just to get away from you
I searched far and wide, hopin’ I was wrong
But baby all the good women are gone

And everything I had to say
Wish we’d gone so far away
Well now I
Can’t stay

Blacktop, I can’t stop
For no one, it’s no fun, no fun
With a one-track mind if you don’t get lucky some time
But still I’m tryin’

I went from San Berdoo to Kalamazoo
Just to get away from you
I searched far and wide, hopin’ I was wrong
But baby all the good women are gone