John R. Miles

Well, lucky enough for me that the gentleman I was sitting next to on the last leg going into Grand Junction, where I had never gone before, starts talking to me.

And thank goodness he did, because he started to talk about all these incredible hiking destinations that you could go to, which completely changed my whole trip.

But I want to tell you another story is years ago,

I was coming out of Austin and I sat next to this guy named Todd.

And Todd just looked like a rock star.

But I didn't really want to go there because the second you do, they typically figure you're a fan and they don't want to talk to you.

So I just started talking to him about life.

And it ended up being this incredible discussion.

Never went into who he played for, what he did, any of that.

But we get to the next destination, which is another flight from Dallas to then Philadelphia.

and as i'm going up to my next flight he's also in line there and he walks up to tommy shaw from styx and it turns out todd is the lead drummer for styx so i'm standing behind these guys and i'm thinking like man i am going to hear this most incredible rock star story you can possibly hear

And they start talking about Tommy Shaw's window coverings.

So I'm listening to this and then I go on the plane and I'm actually sitting next to Tommy Shaw and I'm like, dude, you guys are freaking ruining it for me.

Here I think you're going to be talking about...

Drugs, chaos, all this stuff.

And you're talking about window coverings.

They're normal people too, turns out.

That's what the whole conversation started with.

And then they all started playing musical chairs.

So by the time I was done, I actually sat with every single member of the band on the plane.