Last show in Austin

Tonight is our last show in Austin, it will be at Club Illusions for the Neo Soul event, of which I am very excited about! After that I don't exactly know what we are doing, but there is a possibility that we will be coming home sooner than expected... Not entirely sure yet, but I will know within the next week...

Poetry in Houston and the continuation of wordsmoke

So we have been in Houston for almost a week now and it has been totally awesome! The first thing I've got to say about Houston is this, there is a lot of love in Houston man. Crazy amounts of love and respect haha. Second is that they sure know how to pack the house! There have only been two spots that we have been to so far that had small crowds, and even at those spots either the venue payed us decently or we made decent tips. We have been very well received in Houston and have made a good deal of money since being here. As far as culture is concerned, Houston is far too large to really experience the artistic culture outside of the poetry community, unlike Austin where we experienced quite a bit of it. But so far we have made way more money than we did in Austin and been shown a lot of love so I am quite alright with that.
So, the wordsmoke tour is actually back in action! Me and Lauren Begent (a friend of mine from SLC who met up with us in Nebraska before the original tour split up) are continuing the last of the tour in Texas as wordsmoke for marketing reasons and to protect Deann's name and reputation. Lauren is an amazing musician and an up and coming poet. She plays music at the shows and I do poetry and it actually adds a really awesome and refreshing dynamic to the shows.
We've got one last show in Houston, which is today actually (and will be broad casted on a local TV station here in Houston) and then I'm going to be competing in a slam on Saturday and then we are making our way back up to Austin either by means of craigs list ride shares or hitch hiking for another weeks worth of shows and then we are flying out to California to do another months worth of traveling and shows in Cali and then we are coming home! Much love ya'll... it's funny because I'm in Texas.... he ... he...

- Cody Winger

Houston

I got in to Houston late last night. I am staying with Mr. Seth Walker (http://www.sethwalkerpoetry.com/) and will be here doing shows for a week before cruising back to Austin for a week to do shows there, and then off to California!

- Cody Winger

Me? Cell phone?

Thats right ladies and germs, I'm getting a cell phone today. My good friend Joe is paying for it, and against his will, once I get home I'm going to be sending money to pay him back. But I will have a new phone today, so I will be sending out text messages when I get it with my new number!

Austin Texas, and the follow up on our first hitch hiking trip

Our friend Nick, from http://www.couchsurfing.org/, told us good spots to hitch from, and dropped us off about an hour outside of Dallas next to an on-ramp. I pulled out my guitar and played happy diddies while Lauren waved our AUSTIN sign wildly and with much gusto, and literally no more than ten minutes went by until someone stopped. We got picked up by a friendly old gentelman by the name of Les, who sold unregulated electricity to people with previously regulated electricity. Needless to say, the ride was rather dull, but very much appreciated, and still quite exhilerating just because the simple fact that we were hitch hiking.
Anyways, he dropped us off in a city called Round Rock (which is about half an hour outside of Austin) at a Taco Bell. My good friend Joseph Winters (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=664289800&ref=ts) from SLC who happened to move to Austin the day before I left for the road, came and picked us up from the Taco Bell. We went to the largest Whole Foods store in the world, literally, because apparently Whole Foods started in Austin, and got sushi, and then me and Laurn went and walked around downtown Austin for a bit. There is a road here called 6th, and apparently every weekend they shut down like four blocks of this road and people just roam from bar to bar to bar, but there were hundreds of people... drunk!... wandering!... In the middle of the street!... It was crazy and wonderful and foreign all at the same time! Next weekend we are going to go street perform there and, hopefully, but without much doubt in mind, make a good sum of money.
Unless something arises, we are going to be in Austin for about a week, and head to Houston his next Saturday or Sunday for my first show there!

- Cody Winger

First hitch hiking trip!

Me and Lauren are preparing for our first hitch hiking trip! We are going to be hitching from Dallas, Texas to Austin. Austin is about three hours away from here, so it's not too long of a ride. We are texting a close friend the liscence plate numbers and makes of the car. I think we are going to be hitting the free way in about an hour or less, and I will post as soon as we get in to Austin. Send good vibes!

- Cody Winger

My thoughts after one day in Dallas

We arrived in Dallas, Texas last night and stayed with this really cool cat from http://www.couchsurfing.org/, and as for not even being in Dallas for twenty four hours, the only thing I have to say about it right now, is this place is fucking huge!! Holy hell this city is big! Haha anyways. Me and Lauren are really hurting on money right now, so if there is anyone reading this that is sick of carrying that pesky cyber change, simply push the paypay button, and you can place all that obnoxious computerized money right into the donation box, where it will be put to much better use than taking up precious space in your bank's computers! Such as: eating lunch today, providing gas money for whomever drives us to Austin, eating dinner tonight, providing gas money for whomever drives us to Austin, and mouthwash... Ha.... Ha... Seriously though, mouthwash. Im going to stop writing now, it's far too early, and I have not had nearly enough coffee or mental stimulation. Goodbye all...

- Cody Winger

Wordsmoke is breaking up

Ah, atlast the time has come... After a few days time, we have all decided that our wants and needs out of traveling vary, and so alas we are parting ways, peacefully, happily, and on probably better terms then we have been the entire duration of the trip haha.
Deann and Sonja are going to travel back up to North Dakota, while me and Lauren are still heading down to Texas.
Once I get more time I am going to turn this site into my personal blog site for the road, but it will still be being updated by me no matter what.

- Cody Winger