This is what our drive looked like.

We are currently in the middle of a mega-drive from Denver to Seattle. More specifically, we are at a Motel 6 somewhere in eastern Oregon. I’m not going to lie. We are all exhausted. After an amazing breakfast at our new friend Michael’s house in Denver we hit the road at around 10 am, mountain time and drove straight until 1 am pacific. Most of the time we were in a snow storm. The difference between bus and van touring has never seemed more apparent. We’re trying to make it to Seattle by around 2 pm tomorrow so we’ve really had to power through. It’s not bad though. We’ve been breaking up the drive by gas tank. You start on a full tank and when it’s empty you fill it up and let the next person take over.

Thanks to modern technology we’ve been able to watch TV shows on our laptops while riding passenger. We all watched the newest episode of Lost (pretty sweet!) and I’ve been watching Twin Peaks. I like it. I especially recommend the premier of season 2, although if you haven’t seen season 1, it will make absolutely no sense.

Luckily, the misfortunes of our first show in Minneapolis appear to have been a fluke. The last two shows went off much better. Although experimental, guitarless, instrumental metal is an understandably tough sell to the cheerful pop crowds that we’ve been playing for, we’ve still managed to keep them entertained and win new fans.

I’m excited to be back in the pacific time zone. This will definitely be the biggest west coast tour that we have ever done. I’m hoping we’ll see some of our old school fans out at some of these shows, especially in Portland because we had such great DIY shows in Oregon last year. It will be interesting to see if we can actually pull some weight on this tour in terms of bringing folks out.

Alright. BED.

-anton