So, we've arrived and after a super long travel day (How's 31 hours, tip to tail, grab ya?), we've finally had a really long sleep (10 hours, yay!) and we're toolin' down the Autobahn (doin' a cool 90 mph!) toward the first show in Berlin tonight. JD at the wheel, Quattro in the back seat playing his Nintendo DS and me, doing some assisted navigating with a little help from our good friend, the GPS system who we call "Geeps". Geeps has been a real help so far, he almost got us right to the hotel we had booked for last night, just one wrong turn away is all, so, not bad. Not bad at all. Right now he's telling us we have about 260 more miles to go until our next maneuver so I thought I'd grab a moment to update you all on our whereabouts. In fact if you really want to stay in touch with what the Spaghetti Family is up to then you should check out the lovely Ms. JD's tour blog as she is much more likely to keep up on it than I am. You can check that out here -
http://europeforthree.blogspot.com/ - she hopes to update it almost everyday, so keep checking it out, she has a way with the words (and she's pretty too!).
Well, I'm looking forward to tonight's show. We had some killer t-shirts made up for this trip, design courtesy of our friend Tim Gabor and printed up by our good buddy at Hot Leathers, Andy George and we're hoping to sell a butt load of 'em. (That gas ain't cheap over here. We just paid a Euro and 33 cents a liter for the stuff! Our first fill up cost us 60 Euros. Ugh.) So we gotta move that merch! Quattro's really looking forward to having a job at the shows, so that should help. He's a good salesman too - every summer he has a lemonade stand during our annual garage sale and he usually makes more money than we do!
We just pulled it over and JD got a coffee from an automatic machine and it's actually quite good. Why don't they have decent coffee machines in the states? It's all hot brown water if you get one from a gas station machine at home, but here, they got the good gourmet stuff in 'em. Quattro got a German comic book that he can't read a lick of (yet - that kid's pretty smart. He may just figure out how to speak German before this trip is all over!). He said, "I like German comics, they're funny." Glad someone thinks the Germans are funny, it's not one of their better known traits.
So, the battery's going dead on my computer here in the car on the ol' Autobahn, so I'll finish this update after tonight's show.
Show was awesome. Great turn out, good Germans, nice club. The planets really lined up for this one. The Paceshifters were great and we actually moved some merch... So all's well on the Western Front! I'm gonna send this message off to get it to you all... I'll write more soon, I promise. It's late here and I'm wiped out.
Take it easy,
Eddie Spaghetti, on my way to bed in Berlin...