We were fortunate to do a little outing with our dear friends Lozen on the West Coast. Heres some highlights.

LA: Somewhere there is a picture of Levi sitting in a wheelchair holding a happy birthday balloon in front of a stripper pole in Landra's living room. Thanks for all the fun, Landra!

San Fran: After an awesome and fun show we took over a nearby bar where Joey and Lozen did it up karaoke style. Stayed at a house with a full bar, ping pong table, dart set, nice back yard, right next to Golden Gate Park!

Ukiah, CA: We played a really fun show courtesy of Mark of Trust Tattoos. We met a pizza ninja, almost got in dance off with him, had an acid fried weirdo dance his ass off for our set, scared some locals and had a great time. We then went to the Cottrell homestead where we spent the next two days drinking, taking canoes out at night, looking at constellations, learning to shoot rifles, learning to shot bows, learning how to use throwing stars, playing with a 250 lbs hog named Diane Fine Swine, swimming in the lakes, going to the beach, cooking tons of food, and re-wiring our heads. A fine time indeed.

Arcata, CA: Great people at that bar who treated us really well. Had a dance party in a donut shop and behaved poorly in a hotel room.

Portland, OR: On top of getting to see so many old friends that we haven't seen in a long time we also got to see a really bizarre car accident. Drunk driver coming down a one way street with no lights hits a 1 ft tall concrete barrier to the median then lands on the 4 ft tall grass and dirt median! Pops all the tires, knocks over street signs, loses hubcaps, then drives off the median into traffic going as fast as possible! Lozen ruled this night. Our set was ended when Joey was attacked by Lauren of Palo Verde. We then went to Harrick's house and drank and swam. It was offically Corey's birthday, being the old man he is he passed out early. As a Birthday present Levi put his balls on Corey's face. So thoughtful. Levi had to give away the shirt that read, "I fucked the roadie and all I got was this shit and a soft boner," after a bathroom encounter. Joey and Harrick stayed up drinking until 7:30 am then went to a local donut shop and had an 18" donut cake made for Corey that read 'Happy Birthday!'

Tacoma, WA: The bar was super rad and made of point of telling us they were going to get us fucked up! Corey puked for the first time on tour after shot gunning beer at the bartender's insistence during Lozen's set. We watched Mad Max at Hozi's house and watched Don (Micho De Noche,) Chris (Violent Hippie Records,) and Mike pass out. They sleep like angels those boys.

Ballard, WA: Before heading to Ballard Hozi showed us the sights in Tacoma. A beautiful park on the cliffs, a kick ass thrift store, awesome neighborhoods, and a wonderful place to eat Pho. She also gave us all motorcycle riding lessons! Ballard rocked, awesome bands and awesome people! We had a wonderful time. Also got to watch Hozi spit on a passed out dude who had been vulgar to Juice earlier. Precious. On the way back to Tacoma Levi fell in love with a pizza maker.

Vancouver, B.C.: We had been told that this town looks like the future, and thats no lie! We had a great time playing at a little punk place called the sweat shop. It was our last show together so we all really rocked out and made it count. The Invasives blew us away then threw us a party where they gave us beer and pizza and a drunk shirtless dude named Carl. Carl and Joey had a man love moment, which is preserved in photos somewhere, and Carl paid his respects by pissing on the carpet later that night. We were also treated to Invasives stories of touring with No Means No in Europe over brunch and cocktails the next morning. Then we drove back to Tacoma for the bittersweet good byes.

Missoula, MT: Awesome club, good hospitality by our old friends from The International Playboys. We missed Lozen dearly.

Lubbock, TX: We drove 25 hours straight to get to Lubbock. At one point we were at a dead stop on the highway because of a traffic accident for 1 1/2 hrs. Like idiots we turned the engine off to save gas but left the cd player going. Yes the battery died. On the Colorado highway at 4 am. Luckily there was a redneck behind us who jumped our car and tightened our battery cable for us. However the battery dying somehow wacked out the car's computer and the stereo quit working, making for a long rest of the trip. Brad from Go To Hell, was kind enough to let three total strangers into his house and crash out on his floor before he went to class. We rested as much as we could then drank as much as we could and played the final show of the tour. For having done a 25 hr drive, slept very little, ate very little, and drank very much, we kept it together pretty well. Then parties parties parties. The drive home the next day was a little rough.

Thanks to everyone that helped, specially Lozen. Hope we do it again soon!