Since 2005, I’ve spent a lot of time on the road. Traveling to play music, to take pictures, learn a thing or two, or even just to spend time in places my heroes were from, I find our country fascinating and beautiful. I returned to the bay area in 2014 to get my footing as a geologist once more, having been away from here since 2002.
Traveling has made it hard to answer the simplest question, usually asked at bluegrass festivals: “Where are you from?” I’m from northern california, but have called many places home: northern Nevada, southern Oregon, middle Tennessee, western Kentucky. For a while, much like Jimmy Rodger’s brakeman, “any old place I hang my hat, is home sweet home to me.”
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