North America Guitar Tour
To Oklahoma City
June 27, 2014
After a delicious breakfast, I set off for my next destination, Oklahoma City, and in the rearview mirror I saw Mr. J waving exaggeratedly. He had been very calm throughout the meeting, so I wondered if even Americans would say goodbye like that, but then my cell phone rang. It was Mr. J, who said I had forgotten my microphone stand.
According to the navigation system, it is 677 miles (1,090 km) from Denver to Oklahoma City. Fortunately, I only needed to arrive in Oklahoma City before the evening of the next day, so I decided to go as far as I could that day. On the way, I had the opportunity to run parallel to a freight train, so I started taking pictures, but the front of the train was the same as the horizon. If you compare it to the Negishi Line (Keihin Tohoku Line), it would not be strange for the last car to be in Ishikawacho when the front car approached Yokohama Station. I once again lost myself in daydreams, wondering if Elizabeth Cotton wrote the famous "Freight Train" while looking at a view like this.
Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are famous for tornado. As I drove along, with mixed feelings of wanting to see one but not wanting to get caught in one, I saw rain falling like a waterfall from dark clouds in the distance. This is a view you rarely see if you live in the city. However, it doesn't feel so good when the road I'm driving on leads in that direction.
In the end, I decided to spend the night in Hays, Kansas, which is exactly halfway between the Denver and Oklahoma City. The anxiety I had felt on the way to Colorado had completely disappeared at this point. I felt a bit careless just like Tora-san in famous Japanese movie.
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Contents
Introduction
Until Departure
Seattle
To California
Day Off
Sunnyvale
To La
LA 2 Days
To Tucson
Albuquerque
To Colorado (beginning of Miracle)
Berthoud
Denver
to Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City 2 days
To Texas
San Antonio
Georgetown
Dallas
Houston 2 Days
Benton
Nashville (CAAS)
Roswell
Tampa 2 Days
Miami
Orland 2 Days
Myrtle Beach
Chapel Hill 3 Days
Kingsport
To Indiana
Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Festival
To Staten Island
Manhattan
Phillipsburg
Nazareth (Martin Guitar Factory)
To Massachusetts (end of Miracle)
Methuen
To Montreal
To Buffalo
Meadvill A Day Before
Meadvill Ghost Hotel
Detroit
Chicago
Minneapolice
Spin Off #1
Spin Off #2 "EU Tour IN 2008 / Until Departure
Czech 1
Czech 2
London
Liverpool
Chesham
To Germany
Lemgo
Ingolstadt
Bregenz
To Italy
Florence
The Last Gig
Going Home