The prospect of going home again is worth getting up at 4:30 AM. I left the hotel in San Diego with my suitcases by 5:20 AM, then took a cab to the airport for my early flight back to Denver.  So far, by taking lots of vitamin C, some zinc, and frequent use of hand sanitizer, I have managed to avoid getting sick; on tour, when I meet so many people, shake so many hands, and spend so much time in public places, I invariably catch some kind of crud.  I’m doing my best preventive measures right now, although my...
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Since the past two days in LA did not start early, I had caught up on my sleep. Wednesday, however, I was scheduled for an hour-long interview at 7 AM with a Denver radio station, KHOW, to talk about my Thursday signing in Denver.  Brian and I had train tickets to San Diego a couple of hours later, and the hotel desk warned us we might not have enough time to get to the train station.  I called ahead, hoping to start the interview a few minutes earlier in order to give us a little more travel time. As the...
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It seems a long time since I’ve spent two nights in a row in the same bed. With two signings in the greater Los Angeles area (Pasadena and Huntington Beach), we stayed at a centrally located hotel in Beverly Hills as our base. Ken picked us up again in the morning to spend the day driving around to bookstores. I was in the room trying to upload the previous blog and photos in a very, very slow internet connection (and the cell phone dropped calls several times…funny, I would have thought Beverly Hills to be Cell-Phone Central). We piled in...
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Warning labels on hotel hair dryer. I feel safe now Heading south from San Francisco on Sunday morning, Brian and I each got up early—Brian to head to the train station for his trip down California’s central valley, and me to the airport for a quick flight to Los Angeles so I could spend part of the afternoon with a producer friend on a project we’re developing. I arrived for a double-whammy: torrential downpour and high winds, the worst storm of the year, AND the annual Los Angeles Marathon, which had many miles of main streets blocked off (for miserable-looking...
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