Well, this will be the last blog.  The tour has come to an end.  Thank you guys for reading and keeping up with me.  I hope you have enjoyed hearing about the travels.  Thanks to those of you who were able to make it to the shows!  I have mixed feelings about the end of the tour.  On one hand it's good to be home, but I think I am going to miss being on the road.  I will start putting another together for the new year soon.  Tonight I played in Sylva, NC, a town I had never even drivin through before.  I enjoyed it for sure.  The Guadalupe Cafe is the second show I have had in a bar that was formerly a drug store.  Maybe that's the next trend in hip bar settings.  A quick drive across the mountains brought me home and here I am. 

On this tour I have gotten to see a lot of friends and cover a lot of miles.  I drove a total of 5748.5 miles.  The furthest point south was Miami, west was San Antonio, east was Charleston, SC, and north was good old Knoxville.  I saw weather from nearly 95 degrees and sunny to 32 degrees and snowing (tonight on the drive home).  I drank Lone Star beer in Texas and rode a bicycle 15 miles.  I saw both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.  When I left home, gas was $2.69 and tonight has dropped to $1.89 (a low I thought we may never see again).  The lowest I saw was $1.85 somewhere near the SC/GA line on I-85.  I have slept in comfy beds, on couches, on floors, and in the front seat of the car (thanks to everyone who opened their homes to me).  Hell, I even saw a lunar lander in Mississippi.  Best of all I was able to stand up and play tunes for you guys night after night.  Thank you!  I hope to see you all again real soon.

~Matt