Delayed.

February 4, 2010, Hugo.

Departure for Brownsville, Texas, the same opening location as last year, has been delayed yet another day.
We were to leave for the two-day trip down to the border today but it was postponed til tomorrow, apparently because some of the crew had not arrived and the circus was missing drivers. Now we've just learned that we are not leaving tomorrow either, this time because the lot is flooded after the torrential rains of the day. It's been raining all day (and the trailer leaks in all the familiar places.)
Whatever the real reasons I am enjoying the reprieve of all-night-long power, the last in a long long time, and another day to relax before hitting the road (I am fortunate that this is not a time of manic preparation for me, as it is for most other circus members.)