Hit the Road, Zach

Nashville! One of the three biggest music cities in the US, Nashville is positively brimming with musicians. I expected a great response from the playaz here.
But life is full of surprises. I only got three people interested in the project, and one of them decided he wasn’t interested when I couldn’t pay [...]

Before we commence with the text-only Knoxville section, I would like to describe a happening peep I chanced to rendezvous with en the route to Knoxville — Jeremiah Nave, owner of East Coast Mobile Recording. He has the coolest truck I have ever seen in my life:

Movie Preview Man: It looked like an ordinary [...]

North Carolina! The state of a mysteriously disappearing English settlement, the Calabash cooking style, and the Wright Brothers. Also the state of many missed connections (and I’m not talking about the “missed connections” category on Craigslist, although that would be hilarious). I had about seven people to contact in North Carolina, but [...]

The next day I had Virginia on my mind!
“Not Georgia?” you wonder, while also wondering how you came to be one of my narrative devices.
No, not Georgia. She will be on my mind later. On this day, it was Virginia. I drove down to Bristow, VA (not far at all from DC) [...]

Okay, let’s give this another shot. Narrative devices, are you all set to not interrupt me?
“That’s right!” they all say together.
Great. So, Washington DC! The trip to the city began with a visit to my host, an awesome CS dude named Francis Kim. He had a very nice place right at [...]

I went to Columbia! The District of, that is. Haha!
“That wasn’t even funny,” says a random passerby, who is decidedly unattractive.
Well, you would probably think it was funny if you were attractive.
“I don’t think that was funny either,” says Attractive Girl, looking very attractive.
Dang. Well, irregardlessly, I went to DC.
“‘Irregardlessly’ is not [...]