Here’s a shot from near Tehachapi, CA. After a strangely cool, moist crossing of the Mojave, we arrived in Los Banos yesterday afternoon. We’re starting to know the way – signs like “Shinarump Road” shine their way through the layers of memory. We held a motel room practice which, although I couldn’t imagine anyone not noticing it (think bagpipes, accordion, and cajon), mercifully engendered no response. Our first show’s tonight with Inga and Amanda! It’s good to get on the road and feel its rhythms wash over you, although the leaving from home was especially poignant this time. I felt completely off kilter until all of a sudden the right song and thought slipped in and I was instantly sobbing. Char said gently, “did you catch some sudden sea weather?” How funny it is that even though we plan our travels ourselves, in so many ways we never see them coming.