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Indianapolis, short and sweet, less is more!    I had a brief but short time staying with my dear Indianapolis friends!  My bus ride was much longer than I'd expected, 8 hours, having been stuck in traffic!  At that point, Megabus decided it would no longer allow my blogging page on their wi-fi network and so I wrote 9 pages of memoir for the blog of the week prior without anywhere to put it.  In the mean-time I also listened to a ton of music, all of which I recommend: Tarkio - "Omnibus" Sleep Bellum Sonno - "Judge us by how we lived our lives not how we made our living" Muse - "The Resistance" Tom Waits - "Frank's Wild Years"       At last, in the afternoon, I arrived in Indianapolis!  The sunlight and warmth was a much preferred contrast to the snowy mid-February Indy that Alexa and I had bundled and trudged through last year.  My friend Aaron picked me up within minutes of my phone call, thankfully! He'd hosted...

Wednesday 6/18 20 Hour Bus to Atlanta          As usual, I woke earlier than I should have, I hugged goodbyes and said my thanks to Ian and Sarah as they were on their way out the door for work. I gulped down coffee and Tony drove me to the bus station at 10:45am. Due to the length of the ride going through the night, it would be the first night in 9 days that I hadn't performed! The 20 hours bus ride was empty and began relatively fine, it was frustrating to find none of the promised amenities the bus offers such as outlets or wi-fi on the bus itself.We stopped at a Burger King very early on and I bought another coffee with the gift card Libby Lefebvre gave me. The air conditioning was constantly on and made for a brutally cold environment. I finished reading  “One” by Richard Bach. The book was gorgeous and incredibly wise, as I've come to expect from Bach and he always delivers. It was very concerned with philosophy, metaphysics, spiritual...

Onederlust Day One (in Providence!!) Missing my first ride                   The first day of the tour has come and gone, much like the sleep that kicked off the first of many nights to come!  Grandma and I both turned in around 11:30 and woke up at 5:30 Friday morning so I could catch a 6:45 train from Inwood to Penn Station.  It was one of the only trains that she could get me to the city in time due to her work schedule.  I showered, changed, packed and she graciously made me a delicious and simple breakfast, peach preserves on a bagel and a cheese omelet.  While I'm scarfing this down, a testament both to her great cooking and my voracious appetite, talking between bites, I look up to respond to her sudden gasp, and see the clock is reading 5 minutes to the time we have to leave on the train!  So we jumped in the car and headed to the train station anyway, where I was thankfully able to jump on a slightly later...