Wow - how this tour has been inspiring, amazing and breath taking at times as I've had the pleasure of meeting some of the friendliest people in North America! 

One of the things I really wanted to do this tour was do a video blog on my travels and share some special moments with you - either while I was by myself driving, or meeting cool people along the way and having special conversations with them!  Right now I've posted 3 video blogs - that last one being of the Canadian Rockies and my journey there - and so that brings me to the obvious point that I'm waay behind on them - I'm in Ottawa right now and I've travelled some 100 hours in my car to get here - it definately hasn't been a straight line - I can tell you that!!

That being said - I wanted to give you my youtube channel to check them out at - which is here:  www.youtube.com/davidblairmusic

I WILL catch up sooner than later and will be posting new blogs asap!!  So watch out for yourself if you came to one of my shows on tour - cause you may pop up on the video with soundtrack music in the background!! lol

Be sure to check them out - and I shall keep you up today date on them - there is some hilarious random footage I couldn't have planned!

I've said for years so many times without even knowing what the pain was actually like -that saying " its a real pain in the butt - or a$$" ....  You just say it without even probably ever experiencing a real pain there ever - its just a figure of speech really right?....

I wish.

Well no longer am I saying that lightly.... for I have a REAL PAIN in my butt literally - the result of a muscle (called the Piriformus - which I don't expect you to remember unless this happens to you) spasming out on my sciatic nerve (which sends all your feeling down your legs) like a spoiled 9 year old that has been refused candy at disneyland on summer vacation!! 

Two weeks of 10/10 pain, endless stretching, massaging, doctor visits, chiropractor visits, massage therapy and sleepless nights - have left me exhausted but much more aware and appreciative of the muscles in my back and butt!  I have now visited chiropractors in Calgary, Wisconsin, and Chicago - and we'll see if I see one in Cleveland - I'm doing a video blog on this as well...laugh at me cause trust me you don't want this pain!

That being said - the people that I've met up til this point on tour have been amazing - like the Early Family in Saskatoon who pretty much adopted me for a 4 days, and the Arboleta family in Chicago that has put me up for most of my stay while themselves moving into a new home!  
 
The thing I love about the road that makes all my pain (literally) worthwhile - is all the new friendships and surprises along the way - like the breaking stereotypes (in my mind) that the Prairies (in both Canada and the US) are boring places - or the mid-west doesn't have much (thousands of lakes and the warmest people around) - its no wonder everyone there can survive the winters - they are so friendly it warms the whole town up! :)

So am I having fun on this tour?  Absolutely.   Like always, its the people that make the place - so though I'm in some of the most pain of my life - I'm still having some of the most fun at the same time - which is a real irony.  I can't wait til I get to enjoy this sans the pain in my A$$!

Til next time!