We slept in a little longer on Saturday, as we knew it wasn’t going to be our only sunny day this trip. The breakfast tacos and Austin staple Magnolia Cafe were calling my name. I got the taco, and the Texas Benedict. Just as good as a I remember the […]
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If you stay in Austin too long, what’s weird, may start to look normal, and being “normal”, might start to feel weird. For as much talk as Austin gets for being a “weird” town, it has some of the most friendly people around, weird, or not-so-weird. We had a four […]
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Morning came early and we headed for Tyler. We didn’t know much about Tyler, but we knew that the landscape was starting to look a little more like the East Tennessee landscape. Tyler was a beautiful campus, brutalist buildings, surrounding small lakes. The center of campus was very park like. […]
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We packed up and got some donuts for the road. A good friend of mine Heather, advised me to check out the Donut Stop for some delicious donuts, the students at AC echoed this sentiment. We piled in to the empty store and were greeted with the aroma of warm […]
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I was up bright and early in Amarillo. This is a show that we’ve had circled on our calendars for some time. We met them at an APCA (Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities) conference in September. They all seemed to have a deep love and understanding for spoken […]
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I woke up at 7. I got on my workout clothes and headed down stairs. I need my shoes though, so I headed to the car, where I saw what looked like a small dog in a camp wagon. As the wagon approached the hotel I saw that it […]
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We forgot shortly into the drive just how far Midland was from El Paso. We stopped at Cattleman’s Ranch for dinner about 30 minutes outside of town. We’d heard that there was no better place to see a sunset in West Texas. We don’t know if that’s true, but what […]
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The next day was the first show of our tour at El Paso Community College. We were excited about the prospect of performing at colleges for National Poetry Month, something we hadn’t done since last April. As we drove to the campus we realized that it was about 2 miles […]
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We were southern souls On a western road As the valleys climbed Into mountains tall And we wondered why We were there at all It was the Great Divide And the mountains tall My road to being a touring artist was a long one, and in fact, it’s still an […]
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The entire day had felt like such a blur I hadn’t had much of a chance to get my bearings. I’d been up until one the night before, and I was awake by five. I was running on very limited sleep and had little time to think about the fact […]
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