I am sitting in the passenger seat rolling down I94 just into Minnesota listening to the Carolina Chocolate Drops. What did we do before IPods? Oh yeah, I had a Walkman 4. Long live cassettes. It got a little melted but I think after all these years he has found it in his heart to forgive me.
I loved that band! We were so close to Toronto and Montreal- both amazing cities to spend time. The Vancouver area specifically. I miss the people and the familiarity. But America is a pretty great place to be too. So the trip from Idaho to Michigan was relatively uneventful. So much history. We played a long set of tunes and it was nice to say hi to everyone afterward. In fact, I even had Michigan relatives come to the show!
One of the kids there was telling me about a 36 page illustrated book of original stories based on Thomas The Tank Engine. We had booked a hotel online so we headed there after meeting a few friends after the show. The area of the hotel where we were staying was cordoned off by yellow caution tape.
Never a good sign. Was it a murder? Raccoon infestation? The mind wandersβ¦. In the morning painters had arrived to continue their work so it was kind of a false alarm. But it still feels good to get up in the morning before everyone else and find a treadmill, go for a walk, or read the paper with a nice cup of coffee.
I just asked the guys in the van to describe the tour in one word stream of consciousness style right now and this is what happened:. We had a day off after the Ann Arbor show so we drove to Cleveland and went to the ball game versus Kansas City. Way more fun than watching Storage Wars re-runs at the hotel. OK, maybe that was a bad exampleβ¦We love our reality TV! Life is good in the music business apparently.
