12 years ago today: @vanessa_peters and I came to #Lucca to scout out a possible Italian base of operations. She was getting booked for enough European shows that it made sense to try to find an apartment where we could stash some backline and hang out part of the year, and maybe use VRBO (AirBnb didn’t yet exist) to help recoup some of the costs.

Life always comes at you sideways, though, and you have to be open to what appears in front of you. So when we got the opportunity to take on several apartments, we were like, yeah. And the rest is history.

This photo really takes me back. Here I’m riding a vintage bike with practically no brakes and a seat that fell off at the slightest provocation. If you had asked me then if I could imagine that one day I’d have sold my place in Dallas and relocated here permanently I’d have been like yeah right whatever. Crazy huh.