Daily Archive for September 6th, 2006

Kansas

Evening, folks, Ashe here from the Days Inn in Emporia, Kansas; the Front Porch of the Flint Hills. I’ve been kicking back, relaxing and playing a bit of World of Warcraft here and there on the hotel’s internet going over directions to Omaha tomorrow. Actually, I should be updating the tour schedule and the retailers page, but I did 6.5 hours worth of driving today so forgive me if I’m a bit inclined to relax.

I tell you what, if you’ve never driven Kansas, you should. This state is breathtaking. Vistas of rolling hills with nary a sign of civilization for miles, it’s calming, relaxing and generally reminding of the great balance of things to this old zealot. The weather out here tonight is top notch as well, cool and calm. I must say I wish I had a few days here and there to stay in places, but I’m off to Nebraska tomorrow. I imagine it ought to be nice out there as well. I’ve never had the opportunity to really get out and drive myself, having done most of my traveling in the past by plane (regretably – I hate flying), so all of this is a treat in and of itself.

Hopefully I’ll have some sort of gallery up soon and I can show all of you some of the pictures I take from the car and whatnot, and hopefully I’ll get the chance to get more pictures of the actual stores and demos. But aside from that, I’m meaning to start kind of a column up here following this and that about the game and gaming in general. After so many years I ought to be somewhat of an authority on the subject. Well, for now though I’m going to kick back. Hope everyone out there is well.

- Ashe

Austin

Well folks it’s 12:30 a.m. and I’m chilling out with nothing better to do than watch Anaconda on TBS in the hotel room (among the many reasons I no longer watch TV, I mean, if I’m gonna watch a movie this bad, at least they could let me see the damn snake eat the guy). Today was pretty decent. I hit Dragon’s Lair here for a demo, met some cool folks, playtested a new game and headed back. Most game stores don’t have Sunday listed as their primary day, so there wasn’t much to do afterwords. This is almost the end of the first leg of the tour dear readers (if there are any of you out there). After this it’s a break for about a week back in Denton (well, not a break – more of setting up for the next one) and then it’s straight north, then east all the way up into main. For those of you who don’t know, I drive a 2002 honda civic si; that’s a sports car. It’s got two doors and a hatchback – not a whole lot of room for a big trip, but it carries all of my stuff when i’m out. Hopefully I’ll have the color tshirts and the stickers by the time I head out for the next one. Ah well, hope everyone’s alright. Out for now.