I managed to get up and wander down to the lobby just in time to catch Jerri and Mark as they were checking out of the hotel. They share a house in Asheville, and I was to stay with them on Monday night, but didn’t yet have directions. Whew! Just in time. (Jerri and Mark also share a last name, but aren’t related. And they work together. I’m sure it makes for some interesting assumptions on the parts of people they meet!)
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Sunday at a hoedown is typically a slow down day as the various participants drift off to go back home, one by one. Sunday is usually characterized by a “dance swap” (where people from different parts of the country teach favorite line dances from their areas). I didn’t get to participate in the swap much because Bruce from Shoreline needed to get to the airport — the shuttle back to the hotel was late, so I drove him back to the hotel, and then took him to the airport in nearby Norfolk. Later that afternoon, Jack (from Austin) and I went and found the local gay bookstore, where I managed to track down a copy of Sid Spencer’s last (posthumous) CD. (Sid Spencer was a gay country-western recording artist who died in the summer of 1997. He had four albums out from Amethyst Records.) We then tooled into downtown Norfolk and found a bar called the Garage (which is where the Othersiders were originally based), and then back to the hotel, where we both crashed for further napping. |
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Sunday evening was another jaunt out to the Rainbow Cactus Company, where they were once again playing some country music in the back room while a drag show went on in the main bar. There were still probably 20 of us hanging around at this point. After a bit of this, it was back to the hotel for some heavily needed sleep. See, on Monday I had to drive to Asheville — about 7 or 8 hours away!