Wednesday, July 5th, 2006:
SUPPOSE to leave Nashville at 4pm through Newark to Oslo, Continental called early Wednesday morning and said that the 4pm flight had been cancelled and they were putting me on the 12:45pm flight to Newark.  Which meant I would have a 5 hour layover in Newark.  The good thing about taking this earlier flight it put me with Travis LeDoyt and his band who are headed to Birmingham, England to play at the Americana Festival on Sat.  and Sun. (this is where I am headed to on Sat. after this festival in Norway).
Well of course the 12:45 pm flight out of Nashville actually didn't leave until 3:00 pm.  Landed in Newark at 6:30 pm there time which left Travis and them 30 mins. to get to their connection.  They made it though.  My gate was next to theirs and I was on time to leave for Oslo at 8:00 pm, at 7:30 they came on the loud speaker and said it was delayed until 9:30 pm. At 8 they came back on and said it would be 11 pm and then 2 minutes later they changed it to a midnight departure.  There was something wrong mechanically with the plane so they were bringing in a new one.
Left Newark at 12:45 AM and made it to Oslo at 1:00 pm (not 10:00 am like I was originally scheduled for).  The hotel is a 3 hour drive from Oslo, which I napped the whole way.  Made it here in time to have dinner with Carlene and band.  Very nice people.  Very long days the next few days.  Tomorrow Carlene performs at 10:30 pm for an hour, it will be about 1 am before I get back to the hotel tomorrow night and I have to leave at 6:00 am to catch my flight to England.
The hotel, or should I say lodge, we are staying at is very cool, about 30 mins. from the venue, up in the mountains.  Sheep and horses everywhere!  Plus all the stuffed wild animals they have mounted here in the hotel!  It is 9:15 at night and the sun is just starting to set.  Sometime when I am here I am going to make it to north Norway and see the midnight sun.
Going to wind down......

Friday, July 7 ,2006
Was able to sleep in a little bit and get a little breakfast before we departed to the venue in Norway for Carlene to soundcheck.  No problems at soundcheck and we were back at the hotel by 5:00 pm.  Marty Stuart and his entourage arrived at the hotel while we were down at the venue.  Carlene plays tonight and Marty and Cowboy Crush play tomorrow night.  Carlene and her husband Joe went downstairs to eat dinner when we got back and I came down as they were finishing up, seems Joe grabbed the last piece of meat on the buffet, he thought it was reindeer only to find out AFTER he ate it that it was Whale!  He wasn't feeling so well after that.
Carlene, her band and I departed back to the venue at 10:30 pm, yes it is still daylight out.  The drive from the hotel to the venue is beautiful, we follow along this river that some of the guys fished in a few days back.  Carlene went on at 11:45 pm and gave a great show.  She is so very talented and a really nice person.  She signed autographs after her show and we got back to the hotel at 3:00 am....yes still light outside!