Sketches of North Carolina

I can't believe I've had such a nice time! I'll review the gigs and venues later but there was so much more to it than just that...
Staying with Dolph Ramseur and Dana at their lovely wooden house in the woods, playing guitar on the porch in the sunshine, eating waffles in every single waffle house (pecan with maple syrup, since you ask), visiting Lebos at night and marvelling at all the different cowboy shirts, hanging out at the mall and discovering that T K Maxx is called T J Maxx in the USA, driving a truck to Atlanta and back past the giant peach on a stalk, meeting musicians, shopping for vintage cowboy gear at the Rat's Nest in Charlotte, where a ramshackle band plays Hank Williams covers out the back on Friday evenings, eating huge breakfasts, and just generally being away from it all. Do you know, in Charlotte Douglas airport, they have rows of white wooden rocking chairs for people to sit on instead of nasty plastic seating?