Out West Day 6

Got up early in Phoenix and beat the Super Bowl crowd to head back to LA area. I just love this drive and it always goes so fast because I just can't stop looking at the mountains. Palm/Desert Springs is so beautiful, well not the windmills, lol. The main reason I came out was for a concert, however it got canceled. The consolation prize which ended up being the grand prize was to be able to hang with my friend, mentor, brother, hero..... Jeff Hamilton. He again was so gracious with his time, in a beautiful setting. When departing, he gifted me a cymbal as a token of our friendship. As I continue to say, it's been the hardest season of my life but there are so many that are loving me through it. I'm the most blessed man on the planet. It has been a drum kind of hang vacation. Had such a good time with another one of my heroes, brother and friend, Lewis Nash, Had coffee with my good friend Sheila Early, and even FaceTimed Uncle G on a hike to show him not all of Phoenix has snakes and scorpions. LOL