Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio Texas

San Antonio streets:
For the most part, our experience of roaming this city was relatively uneventful, but some nice lines of decay appeared before us as we followed the river through the concrete heart of this place.





Daniel and Spencer gleaning a closer look at a killer "Robot Mexican Band"....



A pretty little head of Kale thriving in a flower pot by the river....Kale is a delicious leafy green plant most of us know by now. I got to munch on some at the Green Room in San Antonio where I enjoyed a "macrobiotic" plate of fermenting veggies that featured kale, seaweed, sauerkraut, and quinoa. I guess you could say my 'New Year's Resolution' (if you wanna call it that) and most essential step in becoming a healer at this point in my life revolves around rectifying my diet and lifestyle...trying to live closer to the Earth means getting to know my food and food sources on a much more intimate basis, as in hands in the dirt. Raw energy from the soil leaves my own constituents rotating with far better balance.



Some photos of SYSTEMS and Torch Runner at the Phoenix Project: Dallas, Texas.

Photo Credit: Chuck Johnson (BLKCLD.com)

New Orleans, New Years Eve

We had our last "down day" yesterday as we stopped through New Orleans. We're actually so grateful to have a week and a day of solid shows lined up because without a venue we end up without a place to say, lose our senses, and just drive without sleep into the night which leads our bodies to wither, throats to grow soar. Non-consensual sleepless nights aside, we enjoyed our portal into the New Year fondly and forged some colorful memories together. After roaming around somewhat aimlessly for an hour or so, we finally found our way to the New Orleans warf where we enjoyed a perch removed from the inebriated mayhem of the Big Easy. Also, fortune fated our path to intertwine with our good friend Taylor; it was great serendipity to ring in the New Year in NOLA among loving friends! Sorry the pictures are kinda blurry...long exposure times and my trembling armed bipod are hard to manage/reconcile with the ever persistent cold. Still, I found the colors quite nice and there is evidence of a vivid blue moon overhead. We are currently uncurling our legs from long van rides, warming up in a radical bookstore called "Sedition Books" in Houston having just returned from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) where we incidentally ran into an exhibit on the moon, a display on ancient Vietnamese art and a spatially deceptive light tunnel. The road has been a great teacher already, though my heart still aches to the tune of some burning questions...but rest assured, everything has it's place under the sun as well as the moon, and right now traveling feels absolutely right.