BNA >> SAN

That's right. This is a summary of my final days in Nashville and my flight to San Diego.

First off, I've arrived and all is well and I'm being overwhelmed by my fellow roadies. I'm really tired (Tyler and I haven't slept or eaten in about 28 hours), but otherwise so excited. Don't wake me up from this dream.

Sunday in Nashville was a great opportunity to see lots of people that I haven't and didn't expect to. Unfortunately there were others that I did expect to see that I never had the chance to. I guess that's how it happens sometimes.

Morning was church at The Anchor where we met up with Heather Dean and her lovely friend Rachel. We then went to lunch with Jennifer Allen, were met by Joshua Maisner and later by Tyler Jones.

Quite possibly one of the best parts of my weekend was when good old Daniel Trigg gave me a call to congratulate me and to just catch up and see what was going on. He lives in east Tennessee and, although he wanted to come that weekend, he couldn't afford to. I understand, but it would have been so great to see him again. The phone call was quite happy.

After running around with Tyler for a bit post-lunch to his apartments and such, I finally said goodbye to Emily and Brittany. It was sad to see them go after such a fabulous weekend, but honestly I was so ready to take that one step closer to SD.

Tyler and I went back to his parents' house to drop my stuff off before church (again) at a different place. Ethos was pretty rad. Lots of young people and lots of new music. It was beautiful. We spent the rest of the night and all of Monday hanging out with his friends, packing to leave, watching incredible movies, having deep conversations, you name it. It was great.

Tuesday morning, still not having slept from the night before mind you, we left for the airport at 4am and arrived, checked in, and wandered down to our gate before we even talked about how in x number of hours we'd be doing such-and-such. Crazy talk of the time. Now I can say I'm living it.

The flight was alright--not too long or too uncomfortable. We got off in Salt Lake City to wander the airport for 20 minutes or so before we were allowed to reboard the same plane. The flight to San Diego was so, so quick. I literally thought we had another hour to go when the pilot announced we had begun our descent into the San Diego area.

We met up with Brendon and Lauren (two other roadies on our flight from SLC) and the four of us were picked up by Sabrina, the girl who helped HR chair Tiffany Keesey in conducting our interviews. She's a lovely girl and it's going to be a rare sight to see her from here on out, so I'm glad I got the chance.

We drove the 30 minutes from the airport and now I find myself sitting in the garage, alone for the first and probably last time in a very long time. I'm enjoying it while I can. Everyone here is so wonderful and friendly and it'll be great to get to know them all better. Much better.

My teammate Claire is currently at the coffee shop down the road, so I may go hunt her down. For now, I'm off!