Moving (slowly) to Nashville

I made the decision to move to Nashville after going to Tin Pan South and Spring Training, two events put on by the Nashville Songwriter’s Association. Pretty much right after making the decision, I started packing and making arrangements, and with an increasing amount of intensity leading up to a state of near overwhelm in the final 2 weeks, I managed to fully pack a storage unit, a trailer and an SUV with stuff I needed to take with me and store for a 6 month Nashville adventure.

And just as I was getting ready to leave town, I learned that my mother was getting out of the hospital from her second back surgery, so I made a b-line to Kansas City (taking the southern route to avoid the Sierras and Rockies in a very heavily loaded vehicle and trailer).

I drove with Victoria, a lover who’s joining me on this adventure, and one of my best friends, Leslie, flew out on Wednesday to help set up base camp Nashville. The three of us will be renting a house in East Nashville and having porch-life goodness, and I hope to start an EcoTuesday chapter, record my first full-length CD, and co-write some country songs with the talented songwriters I’m intending to meet while there.

In typical fashion, I’m biting off a huge chunk to chew on. I think growing up in a large family has trained me to put a lot on my plate. That and a desire to save/change the world.

Anyway, I need to get better at blogging about the journey. Part of the vision is to share the trip and so far haven’t really done much of that. Part of me feels like “who cares?” so why bother writing about it at all.