#LRTweetup, Meeting Jimmy Wayne & More…

My wife and I went to the Little Rock Tweetup tonight at Prost in the River Market.  This was my first #LRTweetup and it was an awesome social experience.  It was nice to put a face w/ the name avatar for a lot of the people I talk w/ on a daily basis.  I even got to meet the lovely @KerriJack tonight who my wife and I really enjoyed speaking with.

As we were meandering (a word I learned this past week) and talking w/ some of our friends I noticed a guy across the room that looked familiar.  I kept thinking to myself that I had seen this guy before and it wasn’t in the local circles.  Finally as he was walking across the room it popped in my head, this dude is a singer, Jimmy Wayne…  I knew that he was walking across the country to bring awareness to homeless teens in the nation, the project, http://meetmehalfway.jimmywayne.com/, is something that I was somewhat familiar with already.  As we got to talking my wife and I both realized at the same time that okay, here is this dude, extremely talented, career shooting to the moon, just released a new album, and he has walked all the way to Little Rock from Nashville to raise awareness to homeless teens.  Incredible.  What a guy, I am still a bit overwhelmed by it all…

For those of you not familiar w/ Jimmy Wayne’s music, here you go… (you can see some more of his tunes on YouTube.)

I even snapped a few pics on my iPhone for posterity of Jimmy and I and my good friend Keith Crawford because I am a total goober!  The lighting was a little dark inside so the pics turned out pretty dark.  I am happy to have met this guy, incredible dude…  You can follow his journey on Twitter at @jimmywayne.

Also, you can follow Jimmy’s travels by clicking here.  Here’s a little information about his project that I snagged from his website:

On January 1, 2010, Jimmy Wayne launched his “Meet Me Halfway” campaign when he begins his solo walk halfway across America in Nashville, TN.  Wayne’s intention is not only to raise awareness of the plight of the homeless, especially at risk children, teens and young adults, but also raise funds for organizations that benefit homeless youth, including HomeBase Youth Services, a Phoenix, AZ based organization that provides essentials for homeless young adults. Wayne will begin the walk at 10:00 a.m. CT on January 1st at Monroe Harding in Nashville, another organization that services at risk children and young adults. He plans to walk to Phoenix, AZ.   [read more]

Last, but certainly not least, if you want to make a donation to support what he is doing, you can do so at one of these links:

• The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
• Homebase Youth Services
• Monroe Harding

Update 10pm:

I just

saw on Twitter

where Jimmy is camped out tonight in the parking lot at The Capital Hotel in Little Rock.  I offered up a room tonight, but judging by tour bus in the background, I probably sounded like a goober. LOL