After a relaxing week back in Georgia, I packed up my cumbersome bags again and headed off to the Hotlanta airport.  As I was boarding the plane, delighted that I’d been upgraded to first class, a guy started chatting with me about my guitar.  Turns out he knows Robert and we met the following day and chatted about all kinds of stuff from China to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra set to perform the Brahms Violin Concerto…featuring a pianist!  Anyway, a great contact to make.

Visiting Matt was typical – lots of reliving high school days, playing computer games, and so on.  Of course, one of the most important things we did was work on new Frozen Taco songs.  Oh yeah, and we officially released the FT website and Facebook page.

As for “normal” stuff, we visited Navy Pier (there’s a new upcoming FT song that mentions it), Millenium Park (I really liked the opposing video obelisks of kids’ faces – see the pics) and kayaked the Chicago River.

Though many people told me that Chicago is a beautiful city, I had my own assumptions that it was just another city.  The rumors are true; I was very impressed with downtown Chicago.  It must be one of the most beautiful cities of the USA.  I enjoyed recording guitar in Matt’s apartment thirty stories up while looking out over the canal.  But, I have to say it was the kayaking trip that showed up the full beauty of the city.  It was the inspiring beauty of the city and the company of friends that kept me going; we kayaked a good six miles easily, most of the time contending with waves and avoiding the other boats, and most of them we much bigger than us.  Enjoy the pictures.

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