9/3/2010: Traveling Around!

Well hello out there, how's everyone been doing? Its been awhile since my last post, so I wanted to catch up with y'all. I've been doing pretty well, practicing my music a lot and writing here and there. I flew up to Canada again not too long ago and was up there for 3 weeks getting some needed family time in and I had a couple of show as well. The three weeks just absolutely flew by. Growing up, people weren't kidding when they told me to enjoy being young because the older you get the faster the days seem to go by, and they were right. I think you just notice little things like that more as you get older, and don't really waste time thinking about them when you're a kid. My buddy Matt Farris from Arizona had never been to Canada before, so my family and I extended the offer to him to come visit if he wanted to come up to see what Canada was like. So Matt flew in on August 9th, stayed a week and was able to attend my show in Winkler, Manitoba.

After three weeks had passed in Canada I returned to Nashville and pretty much just turned around and flew out to Arizona, where I met up again with my friend Matt to do a show with him. Matt was putting on a benefit show for his friend Denise, who unfortunately like many others has cancer, so I was all about helping out. The show was held outside in the 118 degree heat in Lake Havasu AZ. Pretty hot to say the least and we were happy to have raised around $5,000 for Denise to help her towards her treatments. My prayers and wishes go out to her for a fast recovery. I will also confirm that the London Bridge is still indeed standing strong, because I saw it right from my hotel patio. We all stayed at the Hotel "Heat" right there in Lake Havasu, and it was a real nice hotel. My room was pretty amazing having windows that wrapped around the whole room. Getting back to the London Bridge though, it's neat to think that the bridge was actually shipped from London to Lake Havasu a number of years ago. It once stood in London and I found that kind of fascinating, since I still have some relatives living in England. So I spent 3 days in Arizona and then flew back to Nashville.

It saddened my heart to get word this past week from my friend Matt that his friends were the victims of the shooting that took place in Lake Havasu last week. It was just weird and didn't seem real to hear something like that, because even Matt said that nothing like that has ever happened before in Lake Havasu. Even myself having seen and been there, you would have never expected that to happen. It was a very peaceful place and has been a tourist destination for many years. My heart and prayers go out to the family members and friends of the victims, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss.

On another note, have any of you seen the man vs. food shows on tv? If you have, you might recall the episode when the guy stopped in at "Bub's Burgers and Ice Cream", in Carmel, Indiana, where he almost ate 3 of the big Ugly Hamburgers. Anyways, I'm proud to say that I made it through 1 of the Big Ugly's myself. I tell ya, they are massive. The patti itself is the size of your average pie pan and was probably about an inch thick lol. On top of that, the bun was custom made to fit the patti and was lathered in a whole stick of butter, yummy. Once I figure out how to upload the picture on twitter, I will put it up for all of you to see. If you ever go to the restaurant you may even see my picture up on the wall for having finished the Big Ugly. The record was made by, I believe, a 17 year old guy. He ate 4 of them and I absolutely don't have a clue where he fit all those, cause I was kinda on the verge of feeling sick after eating 1 lol.

I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of my fans out at the November 6th show at the Winspear. The show is for the Voices for Hospice and they couldn't have picked a nicer venue to hold the event. So I'm really looking forward to playing there again! Anyways, that's about all, so I'll sign off for now and I'll talk to y'all again another time.

God Bless!

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