You never know what you’re gonna’ find when you take the back roads! Last summer heading South from New England down Interstate 81 there was a terrific traffic back-up in Southern Virginia. After several hours I was finally able to exit and found myself on Highway 11 where I came upon this VANAGON COLLECTION in the town of Pulaski. I’m not sure if you could buy one or not? It didn’t seem to me like a junkyard but a carefully arranged Art Exhibit of sorts with all the red one’s in the front. Just the week before my friend Jeanne had brought her VANAGON to a gig for me to check it out. Growing up my family didn’t do the camping thing but I was intrigued by RV’s…not fancy one’s but hippie VW’s and such. Now I’m thinking my next touring vehicle may need to be a VANAGON!

Thought I’d talk a little bit more about the “See Rock City” barn photo I took that’s now on the front page of my new website design. Usually I think about the barns I see heading East/Southeast from Nashville towards Chattanooga, TN where the ROCK CITY GARDENS sit atop Lookout Mountain. But several years ago heading south after a show in Louisville, KY…I decided to take the “slow” road 31E instead of Interstate 65 home and found this beautiful one! I’d forgotten until then there were some of these barns so close to Cave City, KY where my mother is from…and probably some of the first ones I’d actually seen! Speaking of my mother and Cave City…this month’s FREE MP3 is the song “Rosemary” I wrote for her. I’ve also included the pic I took that day of the WIGWAM MOTEL in Cave City. I always wanted to stay there when I was a little girl but we never did…next trip!