new cities for the tour?

Okay, peoples. Some new cities have been added to the wish list for the tour this June...and here they are...some are whimsy, some have strong following, some...well, there's a reason to even my suicide missions.

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, Independence (MO), Warrensburg (MO) (wow, that would be an emotional implosion of Biblical scale), Mishawaka (IN), Chicago, St. Louis. Again, the fulcrum point remains Amarillo, TX, on June 8-9th.

If I had 1,000% control and if itineraries and finacing was in place (these things are actually quite cheap, but still some reality does intrude)...the ten cities I'd hit would be:

Monterey
Warrensburg
New York
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Amarillo
Mishawaka (Maybe not, but...)
Mobile
Los Angeles

Note that this plan would involve a lot of wasted miles. The whole concept is to cut the trip into 1/2 day ot 1 day drives so that I can stay over, move on, get set up, do the read...rinse and repeat. The ideal situation is to pick up a sponsor or sponsors and to have a read in each target city with a chain bookstore (perfect solution: Barnes & Noble).

To be honest, if I was told I could do just writing, editing and poetry the rest of my days (okay, some eating, sleeping and lovemaking, as well) but would have to go town to town, reading and moving on, I'd probably take the offer.

This is who I am. Nancy, I made the right choice. You would have been miserable, I would have been miserable. Love you like sunshine, but it is true. There are days I feel like Uther in "Excalibur" when he asks if all there is to his life is to "kill and be king" and Merlin replies that it is perhaps not even that.