I had mentioned many pages ago that I had found a great spot to sit and have a pipe while I'm staying at the hotel I stay at one night a week for work. Then two weeks later, I ended up switching to a different company office and a different hotel, so I was back to square one. My only options were to hang out in the parking lot (not very relaxing), or drive an extra 20 minutes each way so I could go to the cigar shop, sit in their lounge, and marinate in cigar smoke (and you have to buy something in order to use the lounge.)
Well, a couple of days ago, I decided to use the parking lot, and I just strolled around the perimeter of the building, hoping to wander into a warm pocket somewhere, as it was in the lower 30s and a little breezy. As I got almost all the way around back to the front, I came to a part of the building that juts out into the parking lot - it's where the indoor pool is. As I walked deeper into that corner seeking shelter, I noticed it got nicely warm, and as I came to an end standing on a grate in the ground, I found the source of the warmth - the hotel laundry exhaust!
It's going to be a great winter, guys. I'm going to park on that side from now on, whip my camp chair out in the evening, and set it right on that grate and enjoy a pipe. There's a security camera there, so hopefully I'll provide some entertainment for someone as well.
And on that day, I enjoyed John Bull in a Savinelli 673KS.