Tom Waits 2008 Road Trip, er, I mean Summer Tour

I think I heard somewhere that Tom Waits is an avid road tripper. (I know that he has been taking pictures of oil stains on driveways all around the country for years.) Now that he has announced tour dates for this summer, it kind of looks like Tom just wanted to take a road trip from Phoenix to Atlanta, and decided to play a few dates along the way.

This schedule is probably going to elicit a bunch of bitching from people who live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and, well, every other major city in the country. But I, for one, am starting to look forward to a taking a little trip to Texas, or Tennessee, or Missouri this summer. Maybe I'll take Texas Eagle to El Paso, or St. Louis, or the Sunset Limited to New Orleans, and hop over to Mobile... So many choice. Thanks, Tom, for skipping California!