Sometimes I go places.
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Sometimes I go places.
What do you think of that? I’ve been in central Canada for a few days now, and I can tell you that it’s cold here. Calgary and Edmonton were somehow…
I should be asleep, given that it’s 130am, but I’m somehow awake.
So we’re in Canada, and the show is in full swing. Montreal loved us, which is always nice, and we’re setting up in Toronto for show #1 of 2 in…
This is why they call it rehearsal, I guess. I’ve been trying and failing to bring in gear via traditional channels (Amazon, Newegg) and Overnight shipping, but something isn’t working,…
So it’s early morning in Stuttgart and I’m not sleeping, which is dumb.
The gig in London went off, albeit with a minor hitch, and though we managed it, I do have cause to re-focus my efforts on making my kit that much better. Of course, that means spending money, but still. Better gear is better gear. There’s also two more gigs in the offing right now, so that’s a good thing.
So American Airlines changed its logo.
So Mt. Whitney wasn’t a vacation, per se, but I don’t have an “Outdoor Torture” category, so for lack of a better place to put it, some notes on my hike go here.
I’m not sure where to start, really.
There is a lot of updating to do, as since my last update, I climbed Mt Whitney and spent a couple days in Vegas. I’ve got pictures and a bit…
Today promises to be hot and humid, muggy and all-around July-in-Georgia weather. Scattered thunderstorms? Yeah. Humidity in the low 90’s? Yeah. I know nothing about our show except that it’s…
I was supposed to be skiing Wednesday, Thursday and today, but after 3 hours of rainy skiing Wednesday and no skiing (or break from the rain) on Thursday, I awoke…
I need a “work travel” section, it would appear. Anyway, I’m home in LA, trying to get caught up on the things I’ve got to do (I’m looking at you,…
If you buy a red 4-cylinder soft top Jeep, I want to recommend that you don’t plan to drive it across the country with a white Honda Rebel 250 on a carrier attached to the trailer hitch. If you are going to do all that, I’d recommend not filling it up with crap and having a bum fuel or electrical system.
It’s quite a bit of work to get across Oklahoma and North out of Texas without getting practically blown off the road, first of all.
So I pulled the trigger.
I made it home!
24 hours on planes and in airports from Lisbon made it happen, but despite the absurdity of security theatre, lost passports (yes, I lost my passport on the flight from Portugal to LHR) and fat guys in middle seats, I made it home anyway.
After Barcelona (which was every bit as cool as I remembered it, btw), we went up to San Sebastian.
I’m in Barcelona at the moment, checking my emails and generally getting caught back up on the world since I’ve been offline the last few days.
I made it to Athens, survived the 4-shows-in-5-days nonsense and managed to spend a couple hours this morning at the top of the hill in the Acropolis.
I’ve been *days* without internet. It’s been amazing and horrifying, enlightening and torturous. We’ve done 4 shows in 5 days and I’m fucking exhausted, to be totally honest. Landed in…
Istanbul was way cooler than I thought it would be.
Maybe it’s because I’m a guy (I heard that some of the girls on our tour dealt with sexism that would miss me entirely) and maybe it’s because I had just come from Cairo, where literally everything was either falling down or being put up and the people were pretty much unaffected by all of it, maybe it’s because Takumi had a friend who was willing to drive us around and play tourguide, or at least tour facilitator, but whatever the cause, I was impressed.
More nonsense after the break.
So I didn’t update during my down day, and after that, events just proceeded too fast for me to keep up with.
Today’s installment takes us to the Egyptian Museum in big, bad Tahrir Square, through that self-same roundabout, across Cairo into the City of the Dead and to a Mosque built over 800 years ago, as well as to a few other places I may or may not get to.
I can’t decide if I recommend reading any further today, actually, because today was so much weirder than yesterday and definitely contained less iconic stuff (although King Tut’s shit is pretty well-known).
Dateline: Giza
Today’s update is long!
In case you were wondering about the weather for the next few stories, I figure I’ll just post the 10-day forecast and see if it deviates at all.
(Pic moved to after the break)
Aarhus (or Arhus with a circle over the A) is a nice little town.I know it’s been awhile since I’ve updated – the big updates somehow intimidate me and I shy away from writing them.