Full Sail

As I sit here in the auditorium of the Music Business center at Full Sail University, I realize that yes, I have arrived.

new tire, new day

We are getting the tire replaced now...finally. It was starting to look pretty bad. But now that we have a new one, we can continue on the journey.

Last night wasn't anything too crazy. We stayed in Austin with Artie's dad, and I got the chance to meet some of the people he hung with while living here. Just the normal fun times with people I don't really know. Maybe it was just a preview for Florida ;). Anyways, downtown Austin is a pretty cool place, and I can see how Artie adores it. There are some fun things to be done there.

But anyways, I didn't really have a ton to say right now. Just that we are still alive and kicking. Pray for us...today is gonna be long again.

Love.

new discoveries

I'm not currently driving, so I can type a little blog while trying to look up to experience the parts of our country that I haven't seen. It seems a difficult task. My camera currently running at a more accelerated pace. Needless to say, the desert is not the most beautiful part of the whole United States of A. We gave it only one "S" for a reason.

But now we have entered the mids of Texas, and I must say, there is much that I haven't seen. The stone hills rise high above the ground, with their layers clearly visible. And not grey or something lame, they range from golden to red, blue to white. There is clearly a history here.

Something that has come up in conversation (in breaks between albums) is the idea of how fast we are going and the distance we are traveling. Because the Texas I-10 speed limit is 80, we are traversing the Earth at a pretty crazy speed. The road's white lines speed past our car faster than normal. Road that seems so far away, is the road we pass in nearly minutes.

But anyways. It seems I am too easily distracted from writing for now. Signing off. :)

Love to everyone.

good morning

Ah. La Quinta Inn...nothing like it. My ethnic car-mate has just informed me that it means "The Fifth." Fantastic name for a hotel. But I would not rather be anywhere else. The sounds of the I-10 as you wake up. Removing the empty Bud Light bottle from behind your tire in the morning. The Continental Breakfast that has been taken by the other inhabitants. Don't get me wrong, I am quite grateful for the place to stay (Thanks mom and dad), but this is something to laugh about in the future.

Artie and I walk down to get our continental breakfast, and lo and behold, there are about...5 families downstairs, which somehow translates to about 50 people, all trying to get a piece of the breakfast that was advertised. This was a fantastic display for survival. I mean, there were mothers carrying about 10 milks to their young. I literally saw one table, where everyone had their own silverware, that had about 6 un-opened spoons just sitting there. At that time, we were looking for spoons, so you can see the frustration. It was alright though, I had my Lucky Charms, and Artie had his whole-wheat Total (a decision he wasn't most pleased with later). But regardless, we are delaying our departure by sitting here and watching American Dreamz (dreams with a z!) and so we need to get going.

I am driving the first leg of our shorter trip today, but I'll be riding shotgun the second half, so I'll hopefully either update this or be hitting some of you people up mid-afternoon.

I love you all.
Thanks for being supportive.
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the journey has begun

Arturo and I are 76 miles into Arizona, and it isn't the most exciting place. Thankfully Stephen Lynch makes life a little funnier than it was before. I can honestly say I wasn't mentally prepared for this car ride. Not to mention I was way too tired. Artie's been driving for about 200 miles now, and I think he's payed his early trip dues :).

But its weird to be gone though. Yet another thing I wasn't ready to think about. Tears were had last night, yes, but yesterday was amazing. I could not really ask for anything more. It was exciting, beautiful, sad, and funnier than I could have imagined. Radiohead closes their latest album by saying something along the lines of, I have no problem with saying goodbye, because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.

I feel like that's pretty true about yesterday. Thanks, guys.