tour diary: people places and things
10:30 AM. last night we played mobile - jonathan’s hometown. it’s always moving to play bandmates’ homes (others: me and jenna - philly, fran & andrew - DC/DMV, claire - charlottesville), see the places that shaped them, breathe in the stories as they actually were, meet the people that make up the past and have them embody the present.
one of the best things about tour is seeing america, its roads and its concrete, its trees and its weeds, the billboards, the license plates, the bumper stickers, the water, the oceans and the rivers, the trash and the waste, the cities and the venues and the bars and the people that make them live. i am a northeast girl through and through, and increasingly (dare i say) a new yorker every day (coming up on 8 years there in august), and i’m so lucky tour is one of the ways i have gotten to travel in my own country. and to me, touring is better than just visiting because you don’t only get to witness and learn from a place, but you get to gift it a little something of yours too, and in this exchange for.a moment, the world is a little smaller, a little more lovely, a little bit more real.
we’re driving over a swamp now, a simple highway built over water with evergreens and spanish moss flanking it, and despite this making up the day to day of so many people, i’ve never seen anything like it, until two days ago, when driving from pensacola to mobile.
xoxo