Waxa Tour Diary - C-Ville Days

Good morning! I hope you all enjoy the best of today. It was a hell of a year so far and I can't wait to look back, myself! Summer's over. wow. Now what?

Pushing out of Charlottesville, VA today after a good 2 and a half days here. A lovely town! We're in the mountains and so the air has been cool and the temps have been reasonable.

C-Ville has a cute little 6 block pedestrian mall zone that's lined with restaurants and bars and shops and we've mostly been cruising that area, but we took a great nature walk on our day off down to Riverview Park, which almost led to a tubing opportunity which we would have jumped on in a heartbeat but alas they didn't operate during the week after labor day.

We had great French food for dinner at Petite Pois on the strip Tuesday night - on the Yelp review, someone was raving about their waiter Brandon and I sent a screenshot to the group saying "I hope we get Brandon!"

We were seated and our waiter came by and said "hi, my name is Brandon, I'll be your server tonight!" and we all cheered! Brandon was great, a very open and out gay man who regaled us with stories about his move from southern california through Portland OR, to the blue ridge countryside of Western VA. He had some funny stories and we couldn't get enough of him.

The show last night was at an outdoor amphitheater located at the far end of the pedestrian mall and we played to a half empty room as people were still filtering in for the main act... maybe the thinnest crowd so far but those there were very kind and seemed to enjoy it. We were really tight and locked in, and it sounded great on stage, so I was happy. I figured this would be a low stakes stop on the road and I kinda hung back a little and just focused on the songs and singing and playing more than any big stage antics. I feel like I could play this set twice a night every night if I had to... it's so fun.

After the set, me Matt and Connor walked down Miller's a bar/restaurant where a jazz trio was set up in the corner. We had some pretty good burgers and enjoyed the jazz, while an older boomer couple next to us argued... I tried to eavesdrop as much as possible and piece together the crux of the argument. It was pretty tense.

We walked back to the ampitheater and checked out Waxa from the back. they sounded great as always, but I was feeling beat and walked back to the hotel. you know that feeling... hmmm. I could... leave and call it a night? I needed it. Went back to my room and konked out on some Seinfeld.

3 more show! Looking forward to Hopscotch today. I feel we'll have more Timheads down there.

AND PHILLY IS COMING ON SATURDAY!

more soon. p&l T