I am writing this in Tulsa after the Blue dome show here but as was the situation earlier, I cant get my shit together and write more frequently so I'm going to have to write about Lawton two weeks ago too.
First I left Florida at the end of April, cruised through Georgia for a few days, saw my parents, then headed to Alabama to see my tennis coach from when i was in 9th grade. Then to Arkansas to see my best friend from elementary school after 17 years! Old friends reunions are always a good way to transition to a new leg of the tour... and then I was in Oklahoma. I had some prints done in Oklahoma city and when I went to pick them up immediately after arriving in Oklahoma, the folks who printed told me that there was golf ball sized hail and tornado warnings in Lawton where i was supposed to be headed. WTF? I am NOT from the midwest so I havent a clue what I'm supposed to do in the instance of a tornado and golf ball sized hail so I drove in the exit (because the entrance had too low of a clearance for the Makin' Waves mobile) of a covered parking garage at the mall in OKC until the weather settled down a bit. I get blown around like a freaking sail on the interstate when its windy so it was still a hella sketchy drive but no tornado, no hail, no damage. no blood no foul oklahoma, we're good.
Lawton is a complete shit box but the show went well. One of the other artists had kept coming by my booth during the show on Friday and Saturday and I didnt think too much of it until he asked if I wanted to have dinner and wine after the show. In my head I was thinking, "ohh, wine would be nice" and apparently my mouth was connected because I said that part excluding the rest of my thought which was "not with you though." So I figured I could just be swift and avoid him, but that was not the case he tracked me down at the end of the day and gave me his hotel room key! mind you, I still dont know his name. I refused the room key because that's freakin weird and ultimately made up some excuse of why I couldn't hang out that night nor sunday because i was headed straight to Tulsa after the show. Turns out Tulsa that night didnt happen because of weather and as anyone who has done any long term camping/non-luxurious-RV living will not judge me on this. I ended up calling weirdo room key guy and showered at his hotel then I tolerated an awkward dinner then got the fuck out of there!
to Tulsa
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