Day 16: more food

*Diner (and the place next door which I can remember the name of)

Midnight Moon cheese

Beer place with amazing sausage, sourkraut, mustard, fries plate.

*Photo updates coming soon

Day 14: nyc food

Egg: breakfast in Williamsburg. Very good but kale too salty and bad service. Loved the candied grapefruit and the candied bacon.

Spotted Pig: dinner west village. Awesome food and ambiance but overall the meal was too heavy and rich. We overordered, and had too many intense flavors. Again sensitive to salt level. Very good wine pairing. Definitely would go back, order lighter. I took pictures of all the food which I may post later. I've eaten pickles at three meals since I've been here, and today ate bacon at every meal. So oversaturated with fat and salt.

Momofuku Milk Bar: dessert. Amazing cookies. Soft serve not like ice cream, more like a rich frosting. Had a few bites of the chocolate donut soft serve and threw the rest away. Not really into it. Cookies would be even better with milk, which I didn't try but they offer a few different flavors of. Infused milk I guess.

Tomorrow we're supposed to try to be healthy.

Day 15: New York City part I

Being in NYC is totally amazing as always. So many reasons why. Not sure if the allure would remain if I actually lived here. Which has been a topic of the day, I guess because Ben lives here, it's a natural question. It is tempting to move here but i think that's one fantasy that might serve it's true purpose by never coming true. The tension of blowing in for a few days and then leaving wanting more is kind of nice. I would hate to ruin that.

Day 13: Fairy Houses

A day off in Portland. We stay at a home in gorgeous Cape Elizabeth. Today ventured out to a nearby tiny island (can't remember the name). All that's on the island is a school for the deaf, some walking trails and beaches, trees, and a community of fairy houses. There's an area of the woods where people go and (kids and adults) build miniature homes for fairies using anything found in nature: sticks, leaves, branches, shells, feathers, rocks. This patch of woods is incredible! Little homes everywhere! There must have been a hundred of them. Some a haphazard pile of wood, others meticulous, artistic, adorable. Here are a few:

Day 12: Portland, ME

This is a picture of the inside of one of my favorite places to play, in one of my favorite cities to visit. The North Star Music Cafe, in Portland, Maine. Vanessa T. on stage opening the show.

New York Times April 16-30, 1949

You never know what you might find in the lobby of the Comfort Inn, Berlin, VT...


"News of Food" who thought of that?
Less irritating. Definitely less irritating.
See how many names of amazing actors you can find in the showbiz ads above. Technicolor was such a big deal.
It's totally like Mad Men!
And my favorite. Why is Spokane on there?

Day 11: Pirates / Vermont / I'm Tired

Once in a while, our path will cross with the headline news of the day. For instance, we were in Massachusetts when the Red Sox won the world series and John Kerry lost the election to George W. Bush. In case you don't remember, those two events happened very close to one another. Sort of bittersweet and extremely emotional particularly for MA, kind of like when Obama won and California passed prop 8. (I think my dad might have actually framed the L.A. Times front page from that day if it weren't for the part about prop 8. Both news items made the front page in very big letters). Today while I was driving us through Vermont to our next show in Vermont, I listened to NPR and their story was that the captain that was saved from from Somali pirates had just returned home - to Vermont!

And today was rough because I was really tired. And like every show day, I had to load in and set up and play a show and be social and act friendly and nice and break down and pack up and load out. But I'm finding it harder and harder to do it while tired. I used to be able to make it through and ride the exhaustion. Now I just go directly to extremely irritable. It's not fun. And I'm tired because the schedule is so wacky. Sleep happens and odd times and in patches. It's all a catchup game. I think I'm getting old.