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[tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>]

Hi, Dave:  Thoroughly enjoyed being able to follow your trip, and wish
you all the best in the future.  I'll add this to our August newsletter.
Tom

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:40, dave AT davesoroka.com wrote:
> I got home night before last after two 13-hr days and a 15-hr day of 
> driving. That's how long it takes to drive from St Louis to Grand Forks if 
> you're going through Wendover Utah/West Wendover Nevada, where I spent my 
> last night on the road and won $400 US at a slot machine.
> 
> I got home and immediately got busy preparing for a visit from a friend 
> from Holland. Henk arrived yseterday on a Greyhound bus and already we have 
> had a party at the house, played street hockey, swum in the Granby River, 
> gone for a float on the Kettle River, had borcsht at my mom's house and 
> spent an evening drinking beer and playing shuffleboard at one of the local 
> saloons...
> 
> Tomorrow I open the Freedom Festival here in Grand Forks, 4:00 in the 
> afternoon, a 45-minute set. Hope to se a few of you there.
> 
> I just wanted to let you-all know I arrived home safe, in one piece, as 
> promised.
> 
> I know there's a lot more I should say about the tour, there are people I 
> met along the way, places I played, that I haven't mentioned or said enough 
> about. I still owe you-all an explanation of what happened in Ft Worth. I 
> should talk a little more about Bowling Green and the great folks who 
> turned out there and made me feel so at home. I need to tell you more about 
> Birmingham Alabama where I had one of my best nights and I met one of the 
> finest people of the entire tour, a man who has made an art out of running 
> a folk venue, and who cares as much about the musicians who play in his 
> cafe as he does about the cafe itself. I should also spend more time 
> talking about the differences between Americans and Canadians, but more 
> importantly the similarities. The good folks in Hope Arkansas, my new 
> friends in St Louis, the LA audience...and I'm not sure I've said enough 
> about the first show of the tour in Olympia, where my niece converted her 
> backyard into a concert hall for an ev!
ening and let me perform for her frie
> I guess I have more than enough to talk about for some months, just from 
> this one three-week road trip. I'll get to it all, I promise.
> 
> Thank you-all for following me through this adventure and just being there 
> for me to talk to. You gave this tour meaning for me.
> 
> I'm home. I'll begin booking my next road trip soon, hope to be travelling 
> across Canada through the fall and winter.
> 
> All the very best to every one of you,
> Dave.
> 
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