“On The Road” — Motorcycling Music Across America

Twenty-one years ago, I wrote my first song. I had written a few when I was in my early twenties learning to play guitar, but they were forgettable enough that I don’t remember them. And I had written the lyrics to a song composed by my friend Matt Corbin called “Mystery” when we were in Alaska back in the mid-nineties. However, “On The Road” was the first song I wrote that I still play from time to time.

I had hitchhiked from North Carolina to Colorado and had managed to score a job and housing at Breckenridge Ski Resort. I accompanied some friends as they went skiing, got the job before noon, and the money my parents had deposited into my account after selling my computer was just enough to cover my apartment deposit, a loaf of bread, peanut butter, and bananas. Although my roommate had a huge crush on her and asked me not to, I started a relationship with a woman who lived in my apartment unit, and on occasion she let me borrow her guitar when I made her grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

As a Florida child of summer, I am not a big fan of snow, nor the cold that accompanies it. I did enjoy learning how to snowboard and making a snowman with Andrea, but I stayed inside as much as possible. Looking forward to the time that I could get to warmer climates and see new things again, I wrote a song about the wonder of travel.

As the tenth video I’ve made in this series of Motorcycling Music Across America, and after producing thirty videos of Hamilton Across America…