In the evening of April 16th Gustaff and I arrived in Grand Junction, Colorado for our first stop in the final State of our 82 day music road trip across the United States. We had planned to stay 2 days and performing just one show, but our hosts convinced us to spend one more night so that we could perform “one”… Read more →
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California Continued – LA, Visalia, Sacramento
Continuing in California: On our way to LA we took a short break in Santa Barbara to see the Santa Barbara Mission and the Stearns Wharf. We arrived at our apartment for the night in Los Angeles, unable to avoid traffic, just before sunset on March 21st after dropping Gustaff off at his friends home. The drive had exhausted us,… Read more →
Arizona – Pleasantly surprised.
Our first stop in Arizona was at the Native American Baha’i Institute (NABI) in the Navajo Nation. We only got to spend one night there, but it was a wonderful night spent with some locals, staff at NABI, and a group of university students from Salt Lake, Utah. As soon as we arrived we joined a few friends for sunset… Read more →
Durango, Colorado – Finally some mountains!
Gustaff and I made a short stop for dinner in Santa Fe, New Mexico before heading up north to Colorado. We didn’t have a whole lot of time, but I got to have a brief look at Santa Fe’s downtown and it’s Latin influence. For dinner I had a beef burrito with really spicy green chili. It was delicious! As the… Read more →
Hutchinson – The Dirty Little Spoons reunion.
Gustaff and I arrived in Hutchinson, Kansas just after 10 pm on Saturday, March 5th. With uncontrollable excitement Maggie and Adam greeted us outside of their cozy little home. After meeting this vibrant couple in Key West two years ago, they declared Baha’i, got married, and migrated to Washington State to learn how to farm. From there they moved back to… Read more →
Austin – Splitting up, but making it work!
Around the middle of the week Gustaff had noticed a mistake we had made while booking our shows in Austin and Tyler, Texas. We had unfortunately doubled booked Friday, February 26. Our only way around this was for one of us to play in Tyler and the other in Austin. Therefore at 7:30 in the morning on the 26th Gustaff and I… Read more →