First, introductions. For those of you who don't know me I'm a singer/ songwriter, and I live in France. I was partly raised in Africa and the US, and for some reason I find it easier to write in english. I've been touring a lot these past few years as a backup singer, and sometimes with my own band. But this year, I have time for myself, and have made enough money that I decided out of the blue that I'm gonna go on a trip I've been dreaming about for years. "Back to my roots" kind of, back to the US. I havn't been to NY for a while, and I've never been to the west coast. But especially, there are so many places I want to visit, all the wide open space North America offers, so I decided (yeah I know it ain't that original!) to drive on mystical dreamy historic Route 66! I've been planning this for about 6 months now and it starts soon!

Ok I've got my plane ticket, rented my car (um yeah a CONVERTIBLE I mean what else???), got a new camera so I guess I'm ready!! This is my last step, creating my vlog. I hope you all enjoy my trip! I plan on driving from New Mexico to L.A., and it's starting March 2nd. Until then, I won't post much, I'm still working on all the preparations! The idea is for me to put up daily videos of my day, the things I see, and all the places I want to visit. And, once a week, I'll put up a more detailed video. I leave Paris on March 2nd, and am going to Albuquerque via Salt Lake City. It's kinda weird because my friends Tami, Guillaume and Xavier have been harrasing (yes I think that's the word!!) me to watch this show called Breaking Bad for the past months. I'm now totally hooked and of course it takes place in... Albuquerque! Great, now everytime I watch an episode I'm either super excited by all the scenery I'm ACTUALLY gonna be in, or terrified because of the violence (for those of you who don't know the show, it's a lot about meth dealers and cartels....hmmmm....)

Anyway this is my first post, patience y'all I'm in the learning curve of all this! For now I'm still in my tiny country town in the southwest of France!

So for now all I know is I've rented this car :

I pick it up when I get to Albuquerque and I'm going to drive directly to Santa Fe, my REAL starting point. The only hotel I'm booking is the one I'm going to stay at the first night, (after that I'm just going to play it by ear) and here it is :

So as you can see I'll be knee deep in it!

More coming soon...