So after selling out of books and being generally low on other promo stuff I finally started back to Texas today, bringing with me some souvenirs from Salem and, apparently, a New England accent. Now, I love accents folks, I love doing them generally, but when I used to mimic a New England accent (particularly Bostonian), I would get stuck in it for hours. This is much worse. I noticed it when I was on the phone (hearing myself speak through it) and currently have been actually having to concentrate on talking like myself. So forgive me to my Texas crew if I come bac sounding like the proverbial Damn Yankee (not like any of you guys really care anyways, it’s just a reason to laugh at me).
IN the Dark Tower (particularly at the beginning of Wizard and Glass) Eddie Dean goes on about turnpikin’ (something I believe I mentioned in an earlier tour rant). Well folks I’ve done a hell of a lot of turnpikin’ lately, and the later it gets, the darker. Upstate New York is ghost territory (no pun intended) in the later hours and I haven’t even been driving that late. Combine that action with some nasty fog and lights of towns here and there coming from the towns on the other side of the trees that line the turnpike and you have some beautiful horror material (at least for looks). Sadly there isn’t really anywhere to stop and setup the tripod to get some photos of this, but then again, there are a lot of places and sights I didn’t get to photograph for all of you on this tour. Too much ground to cover and business to do. By the time I get back to Denton from this tour I will have covered over 5,000 miles…maybe more than that…gods know I’ve lost count. It’s been a long haul but it’s been more than worth it. We’ll have to see what the next one brings. I suppose that I better crash out though folks, check out, as always, is 11 am and I have 550+ miles to cover tomorrow. Hope everyone is well tonight.
- Ashe
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