ANOTHER WAY TO PAINT THE TRIP

(none of you will be surprised at this method)

As with all other parts of my life, music plays heavily into what's going on, providing a soundtrack of sorts and making memories more real at unexpected times. I couldn't help but put a list together chronologically of songs that held weight and will continue to do so in the future. It took me three days to edit and I think this is the best representation of the trip this way. Feel free to gather and hear it in the order that it is presented.

A. Songs from the first big trip

1. "E-Bow the Letter" - R.E.M.

2. "Gas Hed Goes West" - LIVE

3. "Pretty Good Year" - Tori Amos

B. Songs between the trips that made me want to travel

1. "Big Log" - Robert Plant

2. "Young Fresh and New" - Kelis

3. "Hanginaround" - Counting Crows

C. Utica to Jacksonville

1. "Bus to Beelzebub" - Soul Coughing

2. "I'm Afraid of Americans" - David Bowie

3. "Take the Long Way Home" - Supertramp

4. "America" - Simon and Garfunkel

5. "Cool it Down" - Velvet Underground

6. "Shambala" - Three Dog Night

7. "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood

8. "The Connection" - Phish

9. "Swingtown" - Steve Miller Band

D. Jacksonville to Los Angeles

1. "Don't Fence Me In" - David Byrne

2. "Big Indian" - Dandy Warhols

3. "Respectable Street" - XTC

4. "Mississippi" - Sheryl Crow

5. "Minimum Wage" - They Might Be Giants

6. "Shame on You" - Indigo Girls

7. "Better Days (and the Bottom Drops Out)" - Citizen King

8. "Spinning My Wheels" - dada

9. "Carefree Highway" - Gordon Lightfoot

10. "L.A. Woman" - the Doors

E. Los Angeles to Seattle

1. "California" - Lenny Kravitz

2. "California" - Joni Mitchell

3. "Tahitian Moon" - Porno for Pyros

4. "Twelve Thirty" - Mamas and the Papas

5. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"

- Scott McKenzie

6. "We Haven't Turned Around" - Gomez

7. "If 6 Was 9" - Jimi Hendrix

8. "Louie Louie" - the Kingsmen

9. "Draggin' the Line" - Tommy James

10. "N.S.U." - Cream

11. "Seven Days" - Cracker

12. "Drive in Drive Out" - Dave Matthews Band

F. Seattle to Home

1. "Glide" - Stone Temple Pilots

2. "The Good Times Are Killing Me" - Modest Mouse

3. "Two of Us" - the Beatles

4. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty

5. "The Big Country" - Talking Heads

6. "Chicago" - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

7. "Movin' On" - Blur

8. "America" - Marcy Playground

9. "Good to Be on the Road Back Home" - Cornershop