The typical early breakfast grind greeted us in the lobby. Courageous pointed out the spot where the fat boy gave him the stink eye. We were up so we decided to pack up and hit the road early. We were slated for a 3pm arrival to Galveston. Tennessee Whiskey once […]
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Words from the road – Part 16
The next morning we slept in. I woke up and immediately looked over at my stack of $130 to make sure it was still there. It was not a dream! We didn’t have a show until 7 that night in Texarkana. We love doing poetry shows for night time crowds. […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 15
Morning came early once more. We were slated for an 11am show in Natchitoches, LA at Northwestern State University. It was one of the big name colleges we were getting to perform at, so it was pretty exciting. Natchitoches is a small town with a weird name. Pronounced Naccadish, this […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 14
Tuesday morning marked the day that my wife and I.N.K. merchandise girl would be leaving the tour. I woke up at 6 in the morning to take her to the airport. I said my goodbyes, dropped her off and headed to return my rental car. I ordered an Uber to […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 13
WACO 102 102 Miles to Waco. The halfway point between Austin and Dallas. It had been known as a laughing stock in Texas for years, filled with rundown homes, and stories of David Koresh and his Branch Davidian compound. The rise of the Baylor University athletics program, and the HGTV […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 12
Sunday morning was an even later, and an even rainier start than Saturday. We made a trek north to the Noble Sandwich Co. a famous restaurant in north Austin. I got the “Milk Biscuit”. Sounds way grosser than it is, it was just a biscuit and gravy, but it was […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 11
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 […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 10
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 […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 9
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. […]
Read MoreWords from the road – Part 7
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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