Mike and i literally just rolled into the house after a five day run on the Unchained Tour of Georgia. We have been road tripping with a bunch of amazing story telling characters. We have three more shows on this tour after our two day break. We have crissed crossed the state with barely a interstate hwy to ride on. Its been county and state roads the whole way, and we have had time to meander and its been nice.

The Unchained Tour is destined to eventually ride around on the restored 1975 Blue Bird School Bus pictured below. It worked the first day and, being a 1975 School Bus, it blew a radiator, a carb, had bad fuel lines and it blew a head gasket. 

At least it lived long enough to be heckled hatefully by some rednecks in a gas station! It was rural Georgia after all.  So the school bus is in the shop, 

One monkey dont stop the show, and the show carried on in mini vans and sedans. When the bus broke down we (they) lost their lodging too, but we got creative. Mike and i camped out in several lovely state parks, and the crew and the racounteurs were put up in folks homes and an odd hotel room or so. We worked it out. AND WE HAD A TREMENDOUS ADVENTURE. Georgia really is a quirky, charming, kind place for a traveling circus of literary bohos.  The Novel Experience  Bookstore in Zebulon and the The Bookshelf and Gallery in Thomasville were two lovely bookstores that we really enjoyed hanging around! There was a really good book-y community in both of those places. The Theatres in Statesboro and Macon were OH-MAZING… and were a perfect frame for the voices of our racounteurs. It was fun hi-jacking a library in Newnan. This whole tour has been a pants-swing… you know? When you just work it out moment by moment? That is not the say it wasnt well planned. It has been perfectly catered by loving volunteers, no one involuntarily slept out in the cold, and mike and i even heard Georgia Public Radio promoting the series of shows. Its just that when you travel with a group of people, you never know what kind of situation you are gonna find yourself in… there are just lots of x factors.  These folks have proved to be excellent punch rollers. We just gonna keep on rolling… in three cars on the back roads of Georgia telling stories and meandering.