Go away you scorpion

- There is one rule for the desert. Everything tries to kill you.
- Ahaha, did you hear that? I hope you're fallowing every word.
- Yes, I heard it, oh I did indeed.
- If it's a plant - it will hurt you, because it's a cactus. If it's a small plant - it will hurt you too, because it will leave some stuff on your hands and it will be itchy. If it's a small animal, it's probably a scorpion and nothing hurts more than a sting of a scorpion. If it's a bigger animal, it's a coyote, and it woooon't...kill you, well, it will try, but... actually it might kill you. And sun is always trying to kill you. That's the beauty of it.

He's Benn Jordan, if you're also going to Austin, Texas, you should go and see his gig (because we found him on the craigslist and he's taking us all the way to Austin, and he's on wikipedia - yep, that's why you should go to his concert). Benn used to work like the one who finds out about tornadoes, I don't know how you call this interesting occupation. We're now in Oklahoma, where tornadoes in March happen three times a week. It's really windy outside, and leaves fly around in circles, believe me!
I showed him Aiste Smilgeviciute's 'Strazdas', 'Welcome to Lithuania' and 'We are the winners of Eurovision' to introduce him to Lithuanian culture. It didn't seem to impress him, I don't know what to think about it, these are my best shots normally.
Our motel's receptionist took my ID and said - are you from ... what, Russia?! I said, no, Lithuania. She didn't understand what I was talking about, so I pointed in my ID - Republic of Lithuania. It's in English. She said, eeeh, how do you say it?
I tried again - Li-thu-a-nia.
- You go girl, - she answered. If there was a real tornado, I'd go and hide under her skirt, such a momma.

A new trick we've heard - to shake your shoes before putting them on - to make sure there aren't any scorpions and spiders. I can not tell the new information made me ridiculously happy. I decided to stop being afraid of normal spiders and start being afraid of the brown spiders which can kill.
Oh, because we're going to the desert.
Hahaa.