{"id":980,"date":"2008-11-16T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/?p=980"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:08:32","slug":"tour-of-love-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/2008\/11\/16\/tour-of-love-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Love 100%!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, I arroved (was arroven?) back in Omaha after successfully completing the &#8220;Traveling and Recording&#8221; phase of the project.<\/p>\n<h3>THE GIST: I am now done touring and recording!<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"TOUR OF LOVE 100%!\" title=\"TOUR OF LOVE 100%!\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0201.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will now address your questions.  (Many narrative devices raise their hands.)  Yes, you in the back.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Did you go to all 50 US states?<br \/>\nA: No, that was never my goal.  I had no plans to drive to either Alaska or Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Fine then.  Did you go to all 48 continental US states?<br \/>\nA: No.  I had to skip North Dakota due to the aforementioned computer problems.<\/p>\n<p>Q: So you went to all 48 except North Dakota?<br \/>\nA: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Q: I think North Dakota only counts as half a state anyway.<br \/>\nA: That&#8217;s a good idea, but I still only went to 47 states.<\/p>\n<p>Q: No, because there are 50 total states, so the extra half has to come from somewhere.<br \/>\nA: Where?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Probably California.  Yeah, let&#8217;s say California counts as 1.5.<br \/>\nA: Okay.  So I went to 47.5 of the 48 continental states.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Cool!  But&#8230; this blog still has you in Portland, OR.<br \/>\nA: I liked it there, why not stay?<\/p>\n<p>Q: Haha!  Seriously though.<br \/>\nA: Now that the touring is complete (which was rather exhausting, by the way) I&#8217;ll have some time to start catching the blog up to the present.  Don&#8217;t expect me to catch up lightning-fast, because I have only a couple weeks to prepare everything before I go back to Korea (where I will teach ESL again), but you can safely expect more regular updates.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Can we get a promise, say 2 posts per week?<br \/>\nA: No.  In the history of the internet, that never works.  I won&#8217;t waste your expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Okay.  What&#8217;s next?<br \/>\nA: The next phase of the project is the hole-plugging phase.  I recorded a massive smattering of happening peeps, but some of the songs still have sections that need a little something.  I will be working on trying to fill those holes, either by recording people in Omaha before I leave, collaborating from Korea with musicians in America over the internet, or playing stuff in myself.<\/p>\n<p>Q: The question everyone wants to know the answer to is: <strong>when can we hear it??<\/strong><br \/>\nA: It will still be several months.  Don&#8217;t panic, but don&#8217;t hold your breath either.  Rest assured that I will keep working on the project just as hard, even though I&#8217;m no longer Touring.  While you wait, read my exciting posts about the awesome places and people I encountered and recorded.  Play a game.  Call a loved one.  Perhaps enjoy a cold mojito.  Above all else, <strong>chillax<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What does that mean?<br \/>\nA: Kind of like hanging out, but a really <em>cool<\/em> type of hanging out.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Sweet.  Will do.<br \/>\nA: Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Yes.<br \/>\nA: Okay, stop now.  These aren&#8217;t even questions.<\/p>\n<p>Q: I know, right?<br \/>\nA: Every time you say something I have to answer you to keep the Q&amp;A format intact, but it&#8217;s really annoying when you aren&#8217;t even asking a question.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Okay!  I&#8217;ll stop.<br \/>\nA: &#8230; <em>*sigh*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Q: What?<br \/>\nA: NOTHING!  Shut up.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Got it.<br \/>\nA: Good.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that all of your questions were addressed in this highly informative Q&amp;A session.  If not, please submit any further questions in the comments, but they may not be answered unless you include &#8220;Q:&#8221; at the beginning.  Just FYI.  Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Q: You&#8217;re welcome.<br \/>\nA: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, I arroved (was arroven?) back in Omaha after successfully completing the &#8220;Traveling and Recording&#8221; phase of the project. THE GIST: I am now done touring and recording! I will now address your questions. 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