more than halfway into our tour, we are approaching fresno california for a show tonite before making our way to LA, san diego, texas and than finally home after approximately 30 shows over the course of a month.

we are constantly in motion, we share food, stories, advice, we argue, laugh, smoke weed, and write, practice and play music every day. this is our first extended tour and the band is so much tighter as friends and musicians. we know this will continue to grow  with more tour and more motion.

in the van we have some recording equipment and we are working on our third album in the van. it is exciting to embrace the latest technology which makes it possible for us to edit and record music while we move towards the next town. everyone in the band is involved in the process and the van itself has become a mini recording studio.

we spend our time watching bad movies with the occasional good flick stumbled upon such as steve martin, helena bonham carter, and laura dern in novocaine.

we are relying a lot on the kindness of strangers who take us in after our shows in various towns and offer us their floor. sometimes we get lucky and wake up to the smells of a breakfast cooking. on the nights that we dont have a place to stay, we have been camping! we are on the west coast with lots of beautiful national parks.

we were camping in oregon yesterday and our drummer paul fell and injured himself. luckily we had the day off so we had the time to take him to the hospital and get stitched and medicated without cancelling any shows.

we have had quite a journey so far, from our kick ass shows opening the tour in DC< Baltimore, Cleveland....to our amazing reception in Colorado....we still have LA and Austin to go which are looking to be pretty sweet shows.

all of us are having such a great time on this tour, we all agree that we want to tour as much as possible in the forseable future. if you like our music please tell your friends and come see our next show in your town.

-Dan
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