Whew!!

Holy Schnikes.  I have been traveling a lot all of a sudden. Omaha, Nebraska to Connecticut in about a week.  I'm home now.  And tired!

But it has been awesome.

I started up in Omaha with my writing seminar.  I spoke for seven, yes, SEVEN hours about my story, why we write, what to write, how to write, what to do with it once it's written, etc...  

It really went amazingly well and I had a blast.  These people were actually taking notes:

A few days later my buddy Nick joined me and we headed off in my Toyota Matrix to Virginia.  Nine hours through the rain and we barely made it to the show in time.  

But, oh what a show!  

Not only was it a full house, but the crowd was super fun and responsive.  

Nick played a couple tunes off of his new CD and sold like twenty records.  Not bad!

Then we headed up to Matthew and Maggie's house to play a living room show.  

I swear they fit more people in that room than one would think possible.  Very surprised the flood didn't collapse.  

And what a blast.  What an honor that folks would stand in that crowded room for two hours to listen to songs in absolute quiet!  

Here's Nick:

(He sold even more CDs this night)

Then we crashed with Peter and his kind family before heading up to the Community of the Cross in Danbury, CT.  

One of my favorite places to ever play.  The folks there may be some of the most loving, gracious and wonderful people I've met in my years of travel.  

They always make me feel so welcome, and they were just as inviting to Nick.  He sold out of the rest of his CDs in about six seconds. 

We left right after the show, drove about four hours, got a hotel with a very chatty front desk lady, slept for four hours, drove for nine, played one last show at this place:

...where a fully insane man drove me up and down the side of a mountain at Mach 4 on an ATV in the dark, once I came to the realization that I had not just died we had some Waffle House with a few of my YoungLife friends and drove four and a half more hours home.

And I have not really been awake since.

Comments

[Nick Flora]

All of this is true. All of it.

[Jeremy (aka @cddude)]

Come back to CT anytime! Make it more than once a year! I promise I'll make it next time! I'll still ask you to play Black Dress though! :)

[Johnathan]

We enjoyed having you in NorthEast,TN. Wish we could have heard Nick or at least been able to get a CD. Nick if your reading this I want a CD! I warned you not to get in the ATV but you went anyway. Next time the Helicopter will be ready! :-)

[Casey]

You guys put on a fantastic show for us at OPBC. Hope you come back to Virginia soon!

Also, Andy-- don't let anyone tell you not to make that wacky album!