We pulled into Tampa yesterday afternoon for the gig at The Independent. After playing, the owner, Veronica, let us stay over at her house, so there was no sleeping in the van last night.

Blue Bell kept us safe again last nigt in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mount Pleasant. This is starting to become our routine now: pull into the parking lot, go in and buy whatever essentials we need for the night, then wait for the other RV's to pull in. It makes us feel a little more safe. It's a strength in numbers kind of thing, and the RV's are usually bigger than Blue Bell, so it's like the older brother pulled into the neigborhood to keep the bullies away. It's strange, we rarely ever see the people driving them, but we still feel a real camaraderie with the folks inside. They're almost always gone by the time wake up in the morning. We never get a chance to thank them, not that we would anyway.

We headed over to our favorite Starbucks in the area to do some booking; however, Nikki was still feeling under the weather so she mostly slept in the van. We had a gig at Morgan Creek Grill in the evening so we headed over around 4'ish to take advantage of the free meal they were throwing our way. We managed to push through a 4-hour gig with Nikki's throat just barely staying intact by the time we were done. They let us park the van in the restaurant parking lot overnight to sleep....got a five-hour drive tomorrow morning.

After spending all day at a local Starbucks booking shows for April, we headed over to Mount Pleasant, SC for an early gig at Troubadours Coffee House. It was another small, but attentive, crowd, and the owner, Jeff, was as nice as they come. After the show he made us two big bowls of Italian wedding soup and croissant sandwiches, then sent us off with a bag of cakes and cookies! Free food is always a good thing on the road, and it's always much appreciated. We then headed out to find a Wal-Mart parking lot for the night.

We returned to the barn jam tonight in Awendaw, SC. Nikki was part of a songwriter-in-the-round segment. Closing out the night was our friends
Megan Jean and the KFB

Great night at Palm Coast Coffee in St. Simons Island, GA. We have a long drive back to NC so we stopped off at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Hardeeville, SC.

We had our gig at Whitey's Fish Camp last night under cloudy and drizzly weather.  It was dead as a door nail when we got there at 4pm so we were afraid it is was going to be a dud. However, by the time we started at 5 it was pretty packed. We proceeded to make it through a rare 4-hour gig. It was one of the more interesting experiences as some drunk guy showed up and walked around with a tambourine. It wouldn't have been so bad except he was way off rhythm. He, of course, stopped and started everytime we did.

Whitey's doubles as an RV park and we were given a free spot to park Blue Bell and sleep in overnight. It was near the parking lot so we fell asleep to the jovial sounds of drunken revelers meandering out of the bar at 2am. 

After spending the day at the local waterfront park in Woodbine, we headed back over to Capt. Stan's for the second gig. We gorged ouselves on free ribs then hopped up on stage for a 2 hour set. One of the locals joined Nikki on stage with his harmonica....didn't sound too bad...

Doing a two-night run.