Day 24: Santa Ana, CA

Nau maiYesterday we played a show at The Observatory in the city of Santa Ana. I began my day with a healthy feast, strawberries, nectarine, and blueberries piled high over a bed of granola and tied together with several generous spoonfuls of Greek yoghurt. As we were sound asleep in our bunks our bus had driven through the night. For about forty minutes anyway. A journey across the eastern reaches of Greater Los Angeles, all the way from Pomona on the eastern border of Los Angeles County down to Santa Ana in central Orange County. Just under thirty miles as the crow flies.It was a warm, clear morning when we woke up outside The Observatory, this nondescript building in a very industrial corner of Santa Ana. We recognised the courtyard immediately, the area out the back of the venue that had hosted our cricket game when we performed here with Rosie Tucker in 2022. They had added a basketball hoop now and the temptation to try and insert the inflated leather sack through the elevated…