The whole week was frustratingly long. With both Mom and Dad off work until after the first of the year, they stayed up our asses with never-ending questions. Beth and I had decided that I would go to Nashville first to make sure that's what I wanted. She would happily stay behind and work to support me until I found enough work to keep us afloat when she joined me in a month or so. As far as our parents knew, I was going on my own with only the money I had saved and the chunk of money I was going to earn my last night playing at Tilley's....