Alice worked at the East Bay Hotel at Grand Marais, Minnesota September 2000. It is 110 mi north of Duluth. Cheryl describes it as a charming, tiny town. Alice worked the night desk at the hotel where Cheryl was staying. After the show, Cheryl went back to the hotel, and got talking to Alice. They spent several hours talking about all kinds of things. This song is the result.
Cheryl wrote the song, performed it once in Boston, and Alice got a call from somebody whose sister had heard the song. Cheryl had meant to send Alice e-mail telling her that she had written the song, but the sister beat her to it. The internet is amazing! 
About ten years later, Cheryl was driving back to Grand Marais and wrote a second song. It must be an inspiring place.
- Alice
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- Alice works the desk at the East Bay Hotel
- In Grand Marais, Minnesota
- I came in one night, She said "I loved your show"
- We sat and talked on the sofa
- She's on her own since her husband passed away
- Some surgeon screwed up, there's nothing left to say
- Now she works this desk at night and the campground by day
- in a trailer by the lake until the summer blows away
- She read about the job in a camping magazine
- and home was just a reminder
- So she took the cat and dog, stored away her things,
- left the bleakness behind her
- Even now through the ache of missing him
- she's filled with wonder and far from giving in
- She sees magic on the lake in the early morning light
- And talking books and telling tales we sat there half the night
- Chorus:
- And she said "The more I travel the more I wanna see
- My kids want some settled life for me
- I don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly
- And the more I travel, the more I wanna see"
- Well it's time to make a change, with winter in the wings
- and the East Bay Hotel made an offer
- But she doesn't really know, 'cause there's everywhere to go
- and there's everything that traveling has taught her
- Moving marches down busy city streets
- fantastic people she's privileged to meet
- And she dreams about Alaska, the snow so deep and white
- And that little town in Texas where there's dancing every night
- Chorus:
- And she says "The more I travel the more I wanna see
- My kids want some settled life for me
- I don't wanna move somewhere and grow old quietly
- And the more I travel, the more I wanna see"
- (P) May 26, 2001
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