Eric Herman - Travelblogue: 2008 Spring/Summer Tour

Roseann went out this morning and picked up the correct replacement parts for our septic drain and got that all fixed up, which was quite a relief, as it had been pretty tedious walking to the restroom at the RV park every time we needed to go (especially last night during a pretty heavy windstorm). Becca's rash seemed a little better today, but then seemed to get worse again right before we had to leave for Draper, so tomorrow we'll be taking her somewhere to get it looked at if it's not better.

I had a show this evening at the Draper library, and that went really well. It was a very enthusiastic group and we had a lot of fun together. The "bug song" set is definitely rolling very smoothly now after some early hiccups.

After my show we raced to get over to the American Fork Amphitheatre to see Sam Payne's show there. Sam is a friend of ours that we'd met here a few years ago and he is, I think, one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. He writes and performs truly amazing songs and stories with incredible depth and beauty. Sam is also a top-notch scat singer and played the part of "the cat" for my "Scat Cat" song on Snail's Pace. Unfortunately, it took longer to get to American Fork from Draper than we realized and we only caught the last three or four songs of his show. Still, it was great to see what we did. We talked for a bit afterward and he invited us over, but it was already very late and we had a long drive back to the RV park, so hopefully we'll be able to get together another time this week. Also, it was nice to see Ryan Tilby playing in Sam's band and meet him in person. Sam had recommended Ryan to me a few months ago to do some slide guitar recording for the song "Carseat Snack" for my next album. Wait'll you hear his playing on that... Wow!

Tiggy pretending he's people...