Friday, May 31, 2013

5/29/13-5/30/13: Columbus, GA

Breakfast In Bed
Living on a bus is a trying experience sometimes.  Especially with like 30 other people.  Your 'personal space' is reduced to 2 seats (if you're lucky - and thank goodness I am this time around - usually its just 1 seat) and part of an overhead bin that may or may not be wide/deep enough to fit your carry on luggage.  If its not - then it has to live in the space were your legs should go.  Some people decide to be 'Floor Sleepers' - which means that they lie on the ground (sometimes with blankets, pillows and/or bedding foam) in the leg area with their head up by the window/wall and their legs out in the aisle.  Others decide they are "Seat Sleepers" - which means they take up the 2 seats to lie down with their legs draped into the aisle or on someone else's seat across from them.  This also means that the entire aisle is blocked for practical things like...walking to the bathroom...or exiting the bus - so you are forced to perform acrobatics on a moving bus, stepping on people's seats and personal items just so you can pee or go to lunch.  Kind of crazy - but you get used to it.  You basically have to give up any sense of personal space at all - since on a tour you are traveling 5-8 hours most every or every other day.  Its different...

Anyway - Columbus GA.  Was supposed to meet up with another Curious George friend of mine - Erin Collins, but sadly she was sick and couldn't make it out to the show.  Next time...  The shows went pretty well but our audiences were kind of quiet.  They seemed to enjoy it - and the people I met outside the stage door on the way to the bus were very enthusiastic and incredibly sweet, we just didn't get the feedback during the show.  Which, as a performer is sort of frustrating.  But you move on and hope that their just a quieter audience but that they're still having a good time.  Anyway - off to Knoxville for 2 days now...

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