Have a Skype Concert with Tom Chapin

I'm sure you know his brother, Harry Chapin, but Tom Chapin is better known to kids.  In my youth, road trips between Indiana and New York were spent belting out songs like Billy the Squid and Johnny Glockenspiel.  When we found out Tom Chapin played each year at the Children's Museum, we went... each year.  Eventually, we owned every tape.

Except one, which was a recording for adults.  It was called Join the Jubilee.  We never played it, frustrated Chapin had sold out to the adult crowd.  But, a decade or so later, on a trip to Tennessee, we decided to give the tape a go.  It was amazing.  From Dueling Banjos played on different instruments to Seven Daffodils, I love the tape.  I tried to but it on iTunes to no avail.

After searching for more of Tom Chapin's adult recordings, I discovered he offers private Skype concerts.  How cool is that?!

Roadtrip Route 66, the PCH, and I-80

I've wanted to do Route 66 for quite a while.  Like seeing the Statue of Liberty, it seems like something any true American should do.  I want to see the Southwest, and stop at all the local points of interest along the way.

Because time is short and I want to maximize my drive through America, I figure it would be cool to check some more states off my list.  Hence, a second road.  I-80 makes sense, and I watched a documentary on truck stops the other day, in which I learned there is a gigantic one with amenities including a dentist and barber shop in Iowa.  I could stop in for the buffet.

And, might as well do it right and add in the Pacific Coast Highway as long as we're out that way.