Willamette National Forest, OR - Another image from Detroit Lake.

Willamette National Forest, OR - There's a graveyard of Douglas Firs at (what's normally the bottom of) Detroit Lake. Beautiful and eery.

Issaquah, WA - Took a walk around Lake Sammamish, and its clone army of out-of-season picnic tables.

Issaquah, WA - TreeHouse Point last night was as magical a place as you might expect. Real tree houses make big children of us all.

Seattle, WA - Wash your hands and move along.

North Bend, WA - Nels & Marlon, two of the good guys, in front of my bigtime marquee at the Sallal Grange.

Seattle, WA - Southwest Airlines bringing me up to the Great Northwest. Very confusing on three hours of sleep.

Austin, TX - I call this piece: "Amy Murphy with man pulling child from sky"

Austin, TX - Me and Carrie finally made it down to Waterloo to see our bigass famous selves!

Austin, TX - From the top of the tower, looking down, at Blue Rock Studio SXSW event.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Banjo phenom Trevor Smith is in the house.

Austin, TX - Carrie rocks the house with her band at her official SXSW showcase. Fame & fortune to ensue.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Eric Peltomiemi from (Red House) is in the house.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Anthony da Costa is in the house. And by house, I mean the convention center.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Johnny Hermanson is in the house.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Anthony da Costa is in the house. And by house, I mean the convention center.

Austin, TX - Carrie and Laura Thomas draw raffle winners at Laura's yearly South-By-Soupkitchen fundraiser at Guero's.

Austin, TX - SXSW roll call continues. Robby Hecht is in the house.

Austin, TX - SXSW. AJ Roach is in the house.

Austin, TX - Emmet, the self-caged monkey, at the awesome river float and fajita party.

Houston, TX - Yep, that's right . . . huge in Houston.

Houston, TX - Just had a great visit with Larry Winters at WPFT.

Austin, TX - People often ask me if I'm bald under the hat. Is a frickin' palm tree bald?! That's what I ask them.

One more pretty memory and image from the Midwest. Thank y'all!

Thank you, Midwesterners, for the lovely tour. I fly home today. But I'll leave with a couple images collected along the way. Thanks!

Bloomfield Hills, MI - The Midwest is testing my usually stealth ninja folksinger ways.

Chicago, IL - Kaelin's interpretation of my song, Stained Glass. Which is, of course, a lot cooler than my own interpretation. Kids rule!

Glen Ellyn, IL - A nice interlude with Carrie, Jennifer, and Andrew Calhoun before dropping of Carrie at the train station.

Chicago, IL - Yep, huge in Chicago.

Peewaukee, WI - Carrie's folks take us ice fishing on our day off. The lake was beautiful. The whiskey was delicious. But pretty sure the fish were all dead because of the three foot thick ice sheet on top of them.

Fennville, MI - Carrie puts herself together after the show at Salt Of The Earth.