I write to you from Frankfurt, Germany where we have a day off from tour and are staying with a good friend just outside the city limits. Tour has been going well with 14 shows in a row played thus far. The crowds have been wonderful and very attentive. People actually care about hearing original music here. They are also not talking during the performances (like many people do in the US) so this has made it a very different experience to play shows here. Thanks to everyone that has come out to see me perform so far!
Frankfurt is the only Germany city with a skyline similar to that of a US city. Most of the tall buildings that you see in the photo above are actually banking institutions. Berlin and most of the other German cities have no skyline and have beautiful older buildings that can be seen. Viewing Frankfurt from my friend K-Pete's house definitely reminds me of home a bit. Unfortunately my digital camera has stopped working and I am now only using my grandpa's old Cannon 35mm camera to take photos so the photo pictured above was not taken by myself.
We had one of our longest drives yesterday from Hamburg to Tubingen which was about 7 hours and then we drove north to Frankfurt which was another 2 hours. Most of the drives have been short though with only 3 or 4 hours in between cities. I have been doing most of the driving on the autobahn in our Opel rental car. Most of the time people are driving at speeds of over 150 kph (93.2 mph) and above so this can make for an interesting drive. Usually I am keeping it around 120 kph though as this is the average speed on the autobahn. We have about nine more shows to go on this part of the tour and then we will be taking a break in Italy and heading to the UK. There has been a lot of traveling involved on this trip (planes, trains, and automobiles) and I am grateful to have come here. It seems once again the open road has become my home.
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