Well after Marchtober was over, it was time to immediately start planning our spring break trip, following the OAR tour. Liam, Fighty, Joe Vedder, and I packed tightly inside of fighty’s car, drove over 2000 miles round trip. Detriot – Sarnovsky was up in this biatch along with Tracey (and her sister) and Tangus. What a beautiful venue, and great sound. We met some cool people here, including didia and the air instrument guys. It was a good time. The next night the 4 of us went with the other 4 who were in town to IHOP and had some breakfast, and everyone but Tangus sped down to Bowling Green to catch the VACO show. We were a little late, but it was great to see them again. After that, we said our goodbye’s and we were down to 4 again, so we headed to Windsor. We gambled, drank, and celebrated my 23rd birthday there. We didn’t stay too long, cause we needed to be in Milwaukee the next day by the early afternoon for an in-store. Saw some old good friends there, April and Tom. Chilled after the in-store and then went to the show at The Rave. Huge, that is what that place is. Interesting place and expensive for the drinkers. Met Erica there, Jordan showed up with his girl, Jason was there too along with Fries. Of course the other 2 from the in-store. It was a pretty good representation. I spent the entire show making sure my rig didn’t get kicked, there must have been 3500 people there. Nothing too eventful for the rest of the night. The next day was Green Bay, but before we could leave we ate lunch on the lake. Our waiter approached us with, “A round of high life’s to start you guys off with.” Hahah, it wasn’t even noon I don’t think. They love their damn Miller beer there. So Green Bay, we went to the packer’s stadium and put some cheese head hats on. Good times. The show here was in a wedding reception hall. Quite interesting, but a sweet show. Cheap beers, and a good recording. I don’t remember much of anyone being there, well Jason was. :) We spent the night at Jason’s place in Oshkosh and ordered over 20 bucks from Taco Bell. Barf! A big thanks to him though. We rose early again to get all the way to goddamn Iowa. What a long boring drive that was. We saw tons of Llama’s though. :) We get to Iowa and go to Brad’s place. Have a few drinks to get ready for the show, and then shortly after head out. This place was a seated venue, and quite large. Very cool place. We get our tickets for this show (row 6, with VIP passes). Nice! Much thanks to Joel, even though we did buy him a few harley shirts… This show was sweet, and going out to the bar afterwards was even better. Brad setup an after show party at a cool Irish bar in town. Just about everyone from the entire tour came out, and we had a wonderful time. Thanks Brad! The next day was another day off, we talked about driving to the field of dreams, but realized it was closed during this time of year. We instead just drove for awhile and ended up in Galesburg, IL. What a hick town this was, but it was cheap and they had a hot tub! The next day was Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash College or Univ. is there, an all guys school of 800 or something. Interesting. We went to Andy’s fraternity house there on campus. Erica and her friend were there, and Tom showed up eventually as did Noelle and Renee and Fries. The show was in a gym, which left much to be desired. There was an after show at the frat house though, which made up for it. It was a fun and drunk night. Thanks to everyone who helped us out along our way, and it was nice meeting so many more cool and great people. Hopefully we can do it again sometime!
Since then, I’ve been busy trying to get back into the whole school thing. The beginning of my last quarter! This is scary…
More to come later…