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Hey from chicago! Very exhausted but here's a photo from the chicago open mic at Red Line Tap... Indianapolis was so cute and fun we met great friends all around... Much more to share but exhausted and cold so I am passing out! Alive and well, -AllOne

Dear constant reader, Tuesday debunked my theory that the weather would be consistently beautiful in Nashville! I woke up rather late, although the futon I'm sleeping on is not comfortable in the least, I find It hard to get out of it! Maybe it is because I'm trying to replace quality sleep with quantity, I don't know. Around ten thirty after much tossing and turning Alexa poked me up and asked if I wanted to the Tennessee state museum with her, and mentioned it was raining, I suggested groggily that she go ahead without me and I would meet up with her, since I didn't want to hold her back while I got ready, and I wasn't overly eager to get out into the rainy day! I woke up and stepped outside and it seems abysmal and freezing cold so I took my time getting up, had my two apples with peanut butter for breakfast and showered. I got a text from Alexa saying the museum was a bust, overrun with obnoxious children (that I probably have more of a tolerance an...

My friends! Nashville day three (Monday) confirmed a few things: 1. That I am addicted to Bolton's southern hit fried chicken. 2. That the music scene is very over-saturated with aspiring pop-country musicians. 3. There are many unique open mic formats. 4. The weather here is beautiful and there are some really pretty things to see here! 5. One should always make the best of their scenario while never compromising who they are. As you are probably aware of, Monday is the first day of the work week so our friend and host Steve was out the door for his programming job before we were even awake! That left Alexa and I to have our peanut butter and apples breakfast and I got Bolton's again for a early lunch (pictured below, as well as photos of the charming and respectably independent little one window one room chicken and fish joint)! I sincerely have a problem! So good. We set off to sight see and find Third Man Records, which is Jack White's (of The Wh...

My dearest friends! Woke up Sunday and Steve had gone off to church before we woke up and left us a carafe of coffee, I looked for a mug but could only find mason jars and so I started my day with peanut butter and apples and coffee in a mason jar on the run to catch the bus! After we did a little sight seeing, Alexa and I resolved to go busking (performing on the street for tips) as it was nice out and we had a clear day of exploration! We separated and picked spots to perform...without any music to accompany me I realized I just seem like madman rambling words that rhyme (which isn't inaccurate!) people treated me sort of like guiltily apathetic people do around the homeless in New York City, I assume here with live music pouring out of every over Honky Tonk door and abundant street performers, you get disillusioned. Not to mention I was doing a very niche thing in a very genre specific city (which we learned later that day). One man all decked out like a cowboy sto...

Good morning from Nashville! After Alexa and I got off the Megabus on Saturday afternoon, and experienced the funny encounter from the last post, we the bus pulled away and we waited for the public bus. The sun was high and enjoyable, the bus finAlly arrived and stopped at a Different sign about a hundred feet before the one we were standing at, and so, confused, we figured we would wait for it to come stop at our sign. Despite us blatantly waiting and waving for the bus to pick us up, it apathetically drove past us! There are hour long increments in between each buses' arrival so we began to walk to a least kill some time. As it turns out, there are many hills in that part of town. A bus picks us up, but it is strangely a two piece bus with an accordion type connector, and with the bus crammed, I stood in front of the first piece while Alexa sat in the second back section and there was a weird optical illusion where the bus seemed like it was bending! After a bit o...

Hello friends, There are many memorable events and sights and people that have been worth noting and that I will cherish and share as life long memories on this trip. One such absurd experience happened this afternoon during our arrival in Nashville! Around 3pm, Our Knoxville-bound Megabus pulls to the side of the road and lets all the Nashville-bound passengers pour out of the bus onto the hot sidewalk. As a piano and hiking backpack ridden Alexa and I stand next to a public transportation bus sign amid a dozen or so luggage burdened passengers who dismounted the bus we meet this individual. Peppering this crowd waiting for their rides, are several passengers who have taken the short break as an opportunity to stretch and smoke cigarettes. One such individual, a young black girl, probably in her mid twenties,dressed in nothing gender specific, approaches us unselfconsciously. She points to the toy piano and asks a question that Alexa and I find ridiculous yet many people se...

A en route "Hello" on way to Nashville! After Heather and Alyssa left, there was a smile still lingering on my face and skin still tingling fresh with kisses, I had a few hours to wait outside Adam's house before he returned from work. Elated and inspired by my lovely day with the girls, I'm proud to say I used it productively! I called and caught up with family, read several of Hemingway's Nick Adam's stories, and proudly finished writing a tragic story-song titled "An Unlikely Run-In With Fate" based on a true story for a project I've begun writing called "Water Coolers and Camp Fires", a collection of non fiction tales! Around 6:30 Adam came home, a well dressed and vivacious young man who shares a nice home with a fluffy black cat Lulu. He took us to Gus' World Famous Fried Chicken, which was delicious! It filled us with pleasant warmth to fight the cold. Next we found an abandoned machine shop where these artists Chad...