Getting domestic in NC

November 30, 2007
Can you believe it? We have been getting complaints that we are getting lax in our blogging responsibilities. Nothing has been heard since the great Oyster Feast. Well, we're sorry and will try to do a better job in the future.

We bought a car. Winter without a car looked kinda bleak so we went out and bought one that we can turn over to Tony and Annette upon our departure. They need something with a back seat for the future baby and this is the perfect ride.
So we went off to have Turkey Day with Tony & Annette in Asheville, NC. Asheville is in the western part of the state, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Being higher and further from the coast, it is quite a bit cooler. In summer, that is very nice. Here we all are having a pre-thanksgiving Mexican dinner.
Annette is providing a warm, wet home for a future bambino. Only 2 months to go.....
Here's the lucky couple in downtown Asheville.
Here is one of the bands that Tony plays with. We saw two of their shows while we were there. These guys are good! They made us get up and do a little flamenco - the audience was nice about it although I doubt many had ever heard flamenco before.

After a week in Asheville, we came back to Oriental and are now doing the promo work for our big show here on February 1. We need to get everything out now so that we can visit California without having to worry about it. While in Asheville, we noted that Santa Cruz has been out-hippied by Asheville. Asheville has more yoga and massage instructors, more organic food stores, more music, and younger hippies. And there are a lot more of them! Santa Cruz hippies are showing their age - the young ones are punkier or gothier or something. I am now so old that I have no clue what the young folks are up to - and don't even feel bad about it. Now that we are here for a while, we can get snail mail, so you could actually write to us (those of you who eschew the keyboard).