the first tour in non-sensical form

After my last post i realized that i had spoken about the second leg of the tour as if I had told you all about the first leg, which I hadn't. So, I shall tell you about it.

It was wonderful...awful and rainy, but great. Our first three shows were rained out, but we were redeemed by Ithaca. My guitar malfunctioned in Dansville and we had to travel to Canandaigua a day early but an amazing family saved us. We saw a laser show in Rochester and stayed with my dads cousin, and played a barn party on the Cornell University student farm. Everything went wrong, but everyone we met was more than willing to offer all the help they could. Vendors, if not always customers, at all the markets were grateful to have us there and showered us with praise, help and well-wishes. Everywhere we went we were greeted with offers of food and shelter, which we sometimes accepted and sometimes went without and camped. The night we camped an army of spiders took up residence on dave's djembe case and I winced each time i took a sip of the water we purified from the stream in fear of getting giardiasis again.

There are more stories than i care to type (as i'm not on my laptop, i'm on the computer at the home of the family i nanny for and their keyboard is quite different feeling than what i'm used to). I can't even begin to explain what it was like. That tour was everything one could want out of a first tour. There was tragedy, victory, fights, even profit and a spread of our music, particularly in ithaca where we sold about ten CDs in one day between the Farmers Market and our show at the Dilmun Hill barn (which we recorded, by the way, and will hopefully have a few tracks from on myspace soon-ish),and, of course, a grand finale. The show at Dilmun Hill was so good an end to the tour that dave and I came home a day early instead of playing in Vestal and Endicott.

We missed whitney point, johnson city, endicott, vestal, canandaigua and auburn all because of rain, we played at Florida, greece, rochester and dansville as scheduled, and unexpectedly played the commons in ithaca, Juna's Cafe in ithaca, the Ithaca Farmers Market and Dilmun Hill farm. Ithaca basically ruled our world, but Rochester was pretty cool to. We have a show in October because of a CD we dropped off at spot coffee in Rochester while we were there.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the weekend before all of this started on tuesday we played in Brockport at Java Junction (very very good show, nice town, cool audience) where we will be playing again in october that same weekend. We stayed in Ithaca (obviously, right?) that night (almost ran out of gas driving between cayuga and seneca lakes and then were saved by a godly gas station in Ovid...who even knew there was an Ovid?) and played Oneonta (awesome market) and cooperstown (good market, touristy town beyond belief where there is no escape from baseball kitch) the next day.

Okay, i can't type anymore, except that that's a lie because i could type forever. Why i'm a musician and not a secretary I don't know. I think i'd be good at it. I can type quite fast. Anyway, the point was that i'm not going to say anything else about the tour right now because i've lost my train of thought. I'm also afraid to dig myself into a hole of too much detail i won't be able to get out of before my charge here wakes up.

*poof*

*C*