I’ve been an awful blogger. I’m not sure how I did it on other tours. I think I’m actually working harder on this tour than on any before. By the time I get to the host’s spare bedroom, I am so exhausted that my blog entries would have just consisted of “I miss the arms of a beautiful girl, and the laughter of a beautiful child”. This is a true sentiment, but can pretty well be encapsulated in a twitter update, and there’s only so many times the rest of you want to hear it.
And while it’s an accurate sentiment, it’s incomplete. There is also a large sentiment of grateful humility that needs to be shared. So many people have opened their homes to me this year… the handful of travel companions I’ve had have all said the same thing to me after just a few days: “Man… you know some really great people.”
It’s true. I’m maybe the luckiest person I know in that regard. I know more great people than I can even list here. So many, in fact, that I feel a little guilty for not keeping in touch with each of you a little better. You deserve more than a passing invite to a show or a music video unveiling once in awhile. Know that I recognize that, and I wish I could sit and talk with each of you about what’s going on in your life. I know great people, and I know interesting people. And the Venn diagram on that looks like one big circle with just a couple of fuzzy edges on either side.
And that, more than anything, is the recap of the first three legs of this tour. I know a lot of great people, and I am incredibly grateful for all of you.
In lieu of trying to explain to you what this fall was like (I’d rather do that in person anyway), here are a few select photos from the road this fall. (note: these are all out of chronological order)
The view of Chicago from the rooftop of the AudioTree studios
This was an actual road sign just outside LaPorte, Indiana
A picture I was sent from home of Lincoln in a shirt I got him in New York City
I could have taken a hundred pictures like this between Phoenix and Lubbock. This one is somewhere near the NM/TX border.
This was between Lubbock and San Antonio. Thought about working out a trade…
A still shot from the “I am Certain I am a Train” music video shoot. This was taken in the mountains between Corvallis, OR and Reno, NV
On the drive back from Cannon Beach, we lucked into finding this old train yard, the owners of which were super cool and let us shoot on their circa-1901 meal car that they had in the back. The speedometer is from an old car, about the same era.
This is in the Chicago O’Hare airport. After staying up (literally) all night packing the old house full of boxes and moving them to the new place, *AND* listening to my Rangers lose Game 7 of the World Series, seeing this provided an inexplicable sense of hope about the upcoming 27-shows-in-26-days leg of the tour. It was probably sleep deprivation, but I appreciated it.
A police car pulled in behind me as soon as I got into New Mexico and followed me for about 20 minutes. Eventually, I just pulled over to see what his problem was. He passed, but as I looked in my rear-view mirror, I saw this.
This is the wall of a bar in Bisbee, AZ. I’m not sure how the holes got there, but I like to think it was an old west-style shootout.
This is the Pasadena City Hall. I saw it when I was having a brunch with my good friend Ben Ewen.
From the old Mission in San Francisco where we shot part of the “Good From Evil” music video (coming 2012?)
I saw some phenomenal sunsets on this tour. This one was between San Francisco and Visalia.
Here is another one. I honestly can’t remember where I took this.
Here is an old house in Montana, by a gas station. I like to wonder who used to live in places like this. The truth is probably far less fascinating than my imagination (because in my imagination it is a family of ghosts who still think it is 1929.)
I think this one was taken just outside Price, UT. 25 minutes later, I was driving through icy snow.
And then I got home to my family in Texas for Thanksgiving. This actually happened. I’m in the back of the pickup, and we’re doing about 7 miles per hour here.
Alright! One more leg to go. Dec 3-11… See you soon, Savannah, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Louisiana, Houston, Dallas, Burleson (TX), Ada (OK).
-Levi
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