This morning, Kevin & I had breakfast at Lynn & Vic's house - they really were wonderfully gracious hosts (*especially* at such short notice!) & I'm so glad we were able to get to know them a little bit.
We were ahead of schedule, so we drove up the mountain & back down the other side to Incline Village, NV, where we spent an hour toodling around Sand Harbor beach, wading in the (brisk!) water, watching the birds, climbing on the rocks, & walking an interpretive trail. It was beautiful & amazingly relaxing. Ahhhh. :-)
After our time at the beach, we drove the 2 hours to Grass Valley to have lunch with Kevin's aunt & uncle & their daughter. They had our "Sampler" CD playing when we got there, and put on "Chimera" after that (my gift to them in appreciation for lunch). They chatted about family things while I ate my yummy lunch & then they asked me about musical things until it was time for Kevin's cousin to get back to work & time for us to hit the road again.
UPDATE, July 9, 10:20pm: This is another "what the...?" moment. I typed up this post on my phone clicked "send". The phone complained that it could not send the email, yet the text you see above did get sent & posted to the blog. The rest of it - and the picture above - did you go & won't go. I will have to delete & re-create the email account on the phone yet again to get it to work again. Brian suggests that I look for a firmware update for my phone to see if that helps with the weird problems I'm having, so I will do that tomorrow. In the meantime, I have uploaded the picture for this post as well as the rest of the text, as follows:
We stopped a few more times at a couple of scenic overlooks, but for the most part just headed home, listening to our audiobook the whole way. In fact, when we got to my place, we still had 30 mins to listen to before the end of the book, so after we unloaded all of my stuff from the van, Kevin came in & we finished listening to it. Poor Brian! He missed the first 10 hours of the book & only got to hear the ending!
Anyway, Kevin went home, then Brian & I had some dinner, and now it's time for me to go to bed. I still have this cough - now accompanied by a runny nose, ugh - so I have taken Sudafed & Nyquil & am pretty sleepy.
It was a great tour & a part of me is sad to see it end - though of course I am happy to be home! I met so many warm & welcoming people & got to see so many people smile as we played our music for them. It was totally worth all the time and effort to do this tour. It will always be one of my favorite memories. :-)
-Michèle (sent via mobile phone)
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