day 1 - boston to pittsburgh

10 hours on the asphalt.  3 turkey sandwiches.  2 great tunage mixes.  1 big boxy car (which has been lovingly renamed 'Dolly' because she's a bit top heavy!)

And it only took 8 minutes for Renee to have to mediate between Kathy and Mal.  It was an unfortunate bagel misunderstanding.

Today we loaded up the car and hit the road on the first leg of our trip.  The sun was glorious and the music was blaring and spirits were high while we were heavily caffeinated.  We discovered that Kathy can edit and digitize video on the road and that an orange Element means certain death to all insects.

We ended our day on the road at Renee's parents house in Sarver, Pennsylvania where we were greeted by her Mom, Step-Dad and sister.  After some pie, we sat down and perused photos of the wee redheaded Renee and discovered that as a child, she had a severe dislike for bowel movements but loved to play with imaginary people - which explains that directing thing.  We also heard all about the rebellious youth of her mother who chopped off all of her hair at age 8 to look like Elvis!

Tomorrow - we hit the road at 10 am for a 7 hour drive to Louisville where we'll meet with some area youth.  Watch out bugs - here we come!

T minus 13 hours

We're about to hit the road. Hardcore.

In 13 hours, the big orange box will be packed with 3 wonderers/wanderers, some suitcases, some cameras and a heck of a lot of cookies. And some Elvis tunes. We're heading to Graceland, via Pittsburgh, Louisville, Nashville and then we keep on going to Dollywood, Phill

y and finally home. We're meeting some great folks on the way and we'll be sure to eat every last pulled pork sandwich put in our way.

We've already started our journey... On Saturday we had the pleasure of teaching some RISD students what it takes to be a drag king/ genderbender on stage and sometimes off. Their energy, questions and complete openness astounded us and made us hungry for the road.

And last night, we had the pleasure of meeting with Mal's parents, eating some damn good chicken marsala and learning tidbits of Mal's childhood including an unfortunate mystery involving a Yucca plant.

Stay tuned to this page as we post updates on our journey including some pics and video along the way. We'd say it's going to be a bumpy ride - but we brought pillows with us to avoid that situation!