the inevitable mid-tour recap

i think i've got some catching up to do. it's friday, june 23rd, two days post-solstice, and Berlin is still as hot as when we got here. that's meant consecutive 30 degree humid scorchers that leave the body feeling fatigued by day's end...plus i've been out and around the city all days and most nights, returning to a bright-pillowed sleep just in time for the sun's morning ascension, often waking mid-morning with sun spotted dreams, sliding out of my wild and strangely roaming subconscious to the sounds of smarts cars huming over the cobblestones.