'It's a Texas thang, you wouldn't understand'

Bye bye Austin....thank you for 5 days. You could have taken better care of the weather (are we supposed to be outside when it's over 100 degrees???)...but we forgive you :-) You're beautiful and there's so much music that it's impossible to go to every good concert.

Jan and I are on our way to the New Orleans area. I practically spent my whole birthday on the highway, but at least I could make a real (!) hot chocolate for myself (thanks to the microwave in the hotel room and an expensive 70% dark chocolate and milk from Walmart...).
We played two shows in the last days, one in Austin ('Hole in the Wall'), one in San Antonio ('Lion & Rose'). The one in Austin was okay (location was only so so...), the one in San Antonio was nice, mostly cause of two nice guys...they really listened and overloaded us with compliments.
We do enjoy playing our songs here, but it's just not very different from playing shows elsewhere. Sometimes people are interested in what you do, sometimes they're not. One downside is the 'payment'... one food item, one drink, that's it most of the times. We wouldn't survive if it was like that in the Netherlands all the time. But hey...getting rich wasn't the motivation for this trip!

Some things are interesting:

- there are a LOT of churches everywhere
- there are a LOT of homeless / poor people
- some cities just don't provide any cultural activities, so shopping at the Walmart is the only thing you can do on a saturday night
- you CAN get an overload of Starbucks' Java Chip Frappuchino
- some people are really, really nice and interested in us, others really scare us (check THIS out)
- USA = very big country, lots of different people = not everybody has the same ideas about everything. Really.

Our next show will be on saturday, august 18 at Eddie's Attic in Decatur (close to Atlanta). We are so looking forward to that!

PS: 'It's a Texas thang, you wouldn't understand' = line on a t-shirt Jan bought.....