The Tuscan Van

Greeting all. It is hard to fathom that in two days I will be setting our on this first music voyage that will last the month of August. Thinking back to this time last year, I remember myself toiling away in a farmer's market, cracking green beans, rubbing elbows with the local color, and wondering if that would be what my life would amount to. And now...I am about to travel untraveled roads and sing my songs to the world. It is amazing what time can bring into being.

I am sitting here looking at my suitcases full of too many clothes and a pile of books I want to bring along with me and thinking to myself that no matter how prepared I might be materialistically, I do not think that my mind will ever be prepared for what I am about to do. To bare my soul to so many unknown ears and eyes night after night...to not know where I will sleep...if I will eat..all these unknowns loom over my head making it difficult to breath sometimes. But this heavy uncertainty is the price I must pay for leading this kind of lifestyle. In the end I suppose every path of life is strewn with those unavoidable unknowns. It is merely up to me to accept them gracefully or to revolt against them and cause myself sleepless nights. I guess I must choose to smile at them.

In other news, Andrew (Cain) has recently made the first of many sacrifices will no doubt will make for the band and traded in his car for a band van! We had to travel all the way to Gainsville, GA to pick it up, so it was a long trek to get the thing but we are glad we did. It will be perfect for our travels. The make of the van is a "Tuscany" (a ford 350? i think) which I feel is an excellent name for our new mode of transport. Tuscany is silver with a pop top and leather bucket seats. The back seat folds out into a little bed so that when we do wind up with no place to rest our heads, we will at least have the van to host our tired bodies. The van has a DVD player and TV so we can kick back and unwind every once in a while as well as some kick ass mood lighting we can use when we throw wild parties.... ha. I am looking forward to traveling around in this van..it is big enough so that we can play our instruments en route and is very homey. It even has room for a couple of passengers if we ever acquire anymore band mates (which we hope to do in the near future). And when we are not traveling I will have a good time making fun of Andrew for having to drive around a van.

We finally got our EP's, our T-Shirts, and our bumperstickers in the mail so we have actual merchandise to offer people. Here's to hoping people like us enough to purchase our wares! thats it for now....I go to practice practice practice and pack pack pack.