The tunes - RoadTrip #1

• The first day I called from the road. "Have you seen those CDs Eric sent? I couldn't find them anywhere." I'd been saving those CDs so I'd have new songs to listen to in those areas with poor radio reception... "Yeah, they're right here where you left them. I'll bring them to Bismarck."


• I'd been quite content for several miles until I realized that I should actually be embarrassed to be singing, note for note, along to "Dream Weaver".


• "Did you bring the CDs?" "They're in my suitcase, let's just listen to the radio." "OK, what do you want to hear? Country-Western, Christian, or Classic Rock?"


• The real reason I'm afraid to wear the bluetooth earpiece while driving is that I'm afraid my lipstick, stored next to my phone in the caddy below the gearshift, will somehow bump into the keypad and dial some poor soul who will be subjected to an infinite voice mail message of me singing something like Garth Brooks' "Rodeo".


• The haunting echo of the intertwining steel (?) guitars Neko Case's "Hold On, Hold On" paired perfectly with the vast expanse of sky and the wheat colored earth of Eastern Montana.