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Apr, 07, 2008 6:19 PM by David Vandergrift

It's always funny to me when someone asks me where I am from.  Every time someone asks me I have to either decide to rqattle off the laundry list if towns, states, and countries where I've lived, or I just pcik one and stick with it.  So some poepl in this would see me as hailing from the enitre world, and others see me as the kid from albequerqe or that guy from Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Now that I am in college I don't get that question nearly as much as 'what high schools did you go to.  That again is quite a hard question for me to answer because in all honesty I went to so many different schools that my senior year was the only year I didn't go to more than one school.  To some poepl this may sound a bit crazy and like I came from a broken home or some strange traveling carnival background.  Though both guesses are wrong, the latter is a little closer to the reality that was my childhood.  My parents were both traveling musicians and believed in home schooling.  So we spent most of my childhood living on the road.  When we would stop in to a town and stay for any longer than a day or tw I would ask to go to school.  There we would stay, still living in our bus at the campgrounds or on the common grounds, until they found a gig or a festival to play at somewhere else and it was back to homeschooling for my sisters and I.  Like I said, this isn't the craziest background to come from, but it was still a circus at all times.  I never remembered living in a house of our own until I was a senior in high school.  The only reason we settled down was because I told my parents I wanted to go to college and my choice schools woulnd't consider me if I was totally homeschooled.  So they took our quite sizeable life savings and got a house right outside of Philly where my dad is originally from.  Now it's four years after we moved and with my youngest sister leaving for college, the bus is starting to get restless in the yard.