God damn...I've got the open road...!

[WilliamPitt]

Many have I loved - Many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road.

Many times I've lied - Many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

Many dreams come true and some have silver linings
I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road.

- Zep, 'Over The Hills And Far Away'

SO cheesy...but I've been having a Zep revival ever since that goddam box set came out. I was a Zep head through all of high school...could have told you the song, length and meaning of EVERY Zep song on any album.

...got older...got more refined...got into the Grateful Dead...got older...etc...

Now, I'm staring down the barrel of 32 years old and the book tour has taken me to Nantucket ---> Boston ---> Philly ---> Delaware ---> Philly ---> Boston ---> New Hampshire ---> Boston ---> Phoenix ---> Denver ---> Boston ---> San Diego ---> Boston ---> San Francisco ---> Boston ---> Montana ---> Seattle ---> Boston ---> New York ---> Austin TX ---> Houston TX ---> Austin TX ---> and on Thursday I leave for Greensboro NC ---> Chapel Hill NC ---> Boone NC ---> Asheville NC ---> and home for a few days before ---> Amsterdam ---> London ---> Oxford ---> Paris ---> Tolouse...

I'm sitting here, old-ass, realizing that I'm in the middle of the Zeppelin fantasy I rambled through 17 years ago. I have the open road. It's mine.

Insane.

Ignore this.