Day 22: Baltimore, MD

Nau mai,Yesterday we played a show in the sunny and handsome city of Baltimore, Maryland. We awoke as we were cruising into Baltimore, leaving the bumpy old surface of Interstate 95 and snaking our way through the avenues of downtown until we pulled in behind Spoon’s bus on a narrow street lined with tall brick buildings. I made myself a breakfast aboard the bus, two slices of sourdough bread toasted (in the Hamilton Beach) and smeared with avocado that had miraculously arrived at the perfect ripeness after sitting in the fridge for a week (and having the telltale slice in one side where someone last week aborted their attempt to open it after misjudging the firmness). I topped my tartine with salt and pepper and then gave a drizzle of olive oil from the small bottle Tristan had saved from his airplane dinner. This is about the median view from a bus window parked outside a venue. A clean bus allows you to use photographic techniques like reflective symmetry. We had a hot date set for…