We woke up at Kerry's house again after another wild night of partying. Then we drove about 20 minutes towards Lansing to Kerry's hometown Brighton Michigan.

In Brighton we took the van to get some new breaks. After we dropped the van off we walked a mile to Kerry's house. It was a very cool house sorta in the woods. I took a giant nap. Everyone else hung out in his cool backyard. Nick got bitten by a wasp. When I woke up pizza was at the house whch was awesome because we were all near starvation. After the pizza I took more nap and everyone continued hanging out.

When I woke up we were about ready to go. So I hopped in the van and we left. Lansing was about 45 minutes away so it wasn't too bad.

We played at a rented giant photography place. It was really nice. The crowd wasn't that big, but not bad for a small town that we didn't know anybody in. Also the guy that booked the show got everybody pizza. (Pizza is pretty much the staple of my diet on this trip)

After the show we stayed at a nice girls house that we met at the show. I stayed up way to late. I also had to get rid of a creepy asian guy who was trying to get with one of her roomates. But the girl was freaked out by him.

We left about 11 o'clock and headed for Chi town. We pulled into town and I dragged Nick Chris and Sean to go to Lou Manalt's the number deep dish pizza place is Chicago. Now I am waiting for ze show to begin. Apparetly it is going to be a very long night since it is a music festival in a warehouse.

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The drive from Buffalo to Ann Arbor was about seven hours. But we stopped at Steak N' Shake. Steak N' Shake is a Midwestern chain that uses only steak to make burgers from. My grandpa showed it to me like five years ago, and I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since. It was the one thing I really wanted to do on tour and it turned out that everyone else really enjoyed it too.

When we pulled into Ann Arbor we went to Kerry's house. Kerry is the drummer of Our Brother the Native, the band we are on tour with. We all got to take showers and do laundry. I haven't washed my clothes since Florida so that was kinda nice.

Then we went and got a bunch of beer and dollar by the slice pizza. I forgot to mention that the University of Michigan is in Ann Arbor so it's a really big college town, but in a good way. As we walked to get pizza we saw the street filled with stands like a closed street fair. A massive art fair happens here once every summer for four days.

The next day we woke up and went to check out the street fair. It's just like something from downtown Pleasanton, only on a much bigger scale. Like every other street is covered in tents selling stuff for mom's and grandma's. I got my nana a little nick-back that she will like. I also got some meat on a stick. But this fair has to have about 4 or 5 thousand people walking around. We came here at a really good time.

After the street fair we went swimming in the Huron river for a bit then we hung around Kerry's house until it was time to go to the show. It was at a teen center about five blocks away very close to the art fair. So it was super jam packed and hard to park the van, but Nick handeled it as per usual.

The turnout was pretty good at least thirty strong. Everybody really was into it and we sold a good amout of merch. which made up for the little money we got from the door. Then we went back to the house and whipped up an after party. Now we are headed for Lansing Michigan today. It's kinda sad that we won't we seeing Kerry, Josh or Emma anymore. But it was cool seeing where they are from. On my immediete to do though is see Harry Potter while we are getting the breaks fixed.

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We left Allston and had a 7 hour drive to Buffalo. New York is a very large state. But it's also very beautiful here. Everything is very green here. Unlike California though they haven't cranes it full of suburbs. They just have one sprawling metropolis and a couple other smaller minor cities far way.

Turns out the show in Buffalo started at 6 o'clock and we didn't pull in until like 8:45. But we met up with some nice people.

They took us to get pizza and then let us stay at their house. We got more food, beer and whiskey and started a party. Guy drank a ton ok whiskey and passed out. Lot's of people were drinking brass monkeys for some reason. Eventually I curled up with a sleeping bag on the kitchen floor.

For posteritys sake I also feel I should note that Nick had about five sips of whiskey.

Now we are on the road to Ann Arbor Michigan. Also Kerry and Emma decided to ride with us so 10 people are currenty in the van.
They took us to get Buffalo pizza and then we went back to their house and all got really drunk and had

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We played in a town a little bit outside of Boston called Allston. It was some guys house.

Sean and I immediatly left to go get liquor. Actually this entry is kinda lame. I didn't watch any if the bands. I hung out at the house next door. Everybody was really stoked on Sean being Scottish. I think most of us just got drunk ad hung around.

Allston seemed like a very nice place. We went back to some guys house on the other side. At 9 in the morning Religious Girls had a photo shoot. They all played floor Tom's in a little children's park. We were outta paint so we used water which looked really cool.

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The drive from New York to Providence was only three hours so we didn't have anything to do but dick around.

We played at a bar/art space/ taqueria. It was Sunday night so the crowd wasn't very big. And only two bands played Religious Girls and a local band Kokomo.

Sean and I bought two beers each from the bar. She thought Sean was in the band and gave him half off. After she poured Sean's 2nd beer he paid and walked off. She turned to me and gave me a WTF look. The she proceded to berate me and Sean for not tipping her. I already didn't like Providence that much but she completly ruined it for me.

After the show we stayed at Kokomo's really cool loft. They had a huge space with a classic pinball machine that I was really into. After overstaying our welcome we left for Boston.

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Eventually at around 4 o'clock everybody dragged themselves onto the subway. We decided to go to Central Park. The Subway system is very confusing but Nick after a couple of wrong stops was able to navigate us.

We hit the southern part of central park. Sean and I got hot dogs from a cart on the corner of a street that were really good. When we got to central park everybody was craving pizza. We asked a cop where the best pizza in New York was.

This cop was awesome. He was clearly born and bred in New York. He was stoked that we didn't care how far we away it was. He also really liked that we were from California. He told us Joe's was the best place.

So back on the subway we went. This trip was relativley easy only six stops down the line in "the village". Apparently this place was in Spiderman. The pizza place was busy. I got two slices of pepperoni that they gave away to someone else so I had to wait for a fresh pizza to be made while everybody else chowed down. THEN when the pizza was finished I had to just about fist fight a lady who tried to steal my slices.

The verdict on New York pizza: greasy, crispy, and tons of pepperoni.

After that we had to get back to Brooklyn to play the show. But we got super lost. The train that normally takes you from manhattan to Brooklyn wasn't in service that day. So we had to transer a bunch and caught two trains going the wrong way.

Once we finally did get back we still had to drive two miles to the show. Driving two miles in New York sucks. Needless to say we were very late when we got to the show. We seriosly pissed off some hotshot promoter in New York who books alot of shows.

After the show we went back to a friends house and passed out.

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Yesterday we walked 4 miles from Brooklyn, Brooklyn to Williamsburg Brooklyn. It was a particularly beautiful day.

Williamsburg is obviously the cool place to be right now. Everybody there was good looking and well dressed. I got my first slice of New York pizza.

Then we went to McLaren park at the end of Williamsburg.
Here is a really funny article I read in time the day I got home from tour Everybody there was dressed in plaid, wearing avaitors and looked like somebody I would actually like to talk to.

After that we took the subway back to the guy's house we stayed at the night before and picked up the van. We pretty much drove back where we came from. The venue was called Death by Audio and was three blocks off from Williamsburg.

It didn't really start filling up until the second band played. By the time religious girls came on the place had a good amount of people there. They played a great set and people there were really stoked on shirlords. But we sold a bunch of other merch too.

After the show we went back to the house we went to a party at last night. I think we got something like 24 coors tall cans. So cheap here only a dollar! Most of us stayed up really late. I saw the sunrise and made a fire outside with Sean. While this was going on there was an hour long jam sesh going on inside. Now it's one o'clock and I gotta wake these guys up to go do stuff.

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We made it. Philly was pretty cool stayed in a warehouse. Decided with the van trouble we have been having to skip the Milford CT.

We drove straight to New York. We got so lost, ended back in Jersey and had to pay the tolls all over again.

We met up with a friend of a friend and we headed to a party full of people. We went around the corner and got dollar tall cans. The party was really good and we didn't leave until four in the morning. On our way back to the house we were going to stay at the van overheated. We had to stay up for another hour while it cooled down. Now it is time for me to go check out this little city.

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I slept all night on the way to Jacksonville. Once we pulled into town we got the trailer fixed and the van fixed for once and all.

After that we jetted to the beach and took a dip in the ocean. We gayed out at the beach for like two hours. After that we got pizza and it started pouring rain. Florida would be unbareable if it didn't rain twice a day.

We went to the shantytown pub, a little bar in downtown Jacksonville. It was vey small and cramped but they gave away drink tickets and had a huge back patio.

The clientele of this pub were particularly interesting to me. Most of the people when we got there were crusty punk. Or not even that, they were like really disguisting vagabonds.

As the night continued the rednecks came out. Now a redneck in this part of Florida dress like a bro. They also say the same things bro's do, just in an extremly unnattaractive southern draw which makes them sound downright retarded.

But everyone at the show loved them and a nice young couple put us all up in there fancy fourplex and made us all breakfast the next morning.

Then we had a 6 hour drive to Atlanta. We pulled up to the venue and no one was there. They gave all of us drink tickets. Then they realized that half of us were roadies and took then away. The place was still deserted so we called a friend of a friend to come over.

She said that WE should come to the block party she was at. So we quickley threw everything in the van and drove across town. There was 200 people and 4 kegs and a slip n slide. 50 people watched Religious Girls play and they had them all eating out of the palm's if there hands.

Yesterday was a 9 hour drive from Atlanta to Greenville, NC but it wasn't to bad. The place we played was small, dingey and smelly. But free food and another keg and 50 redneck strangers setting off fireworks made it an alright time. I was a little homesick for the first time though because I wasn't throwing my annual 4th of July extravaganza.

Now I'm sitting in a Krispy Kreme watching all these familes that all know each other after they got out of church. It's suprisingly entertaining.

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About 70 miles out of ABQ the van broke down.

We called triple A and we hung out in the desert for three hours until they towed us to the lovely little town of Socorro New Mexico.

We hung out for five more hours in the parking lot of an AutoZone while Nick worked in the van. He fired it up and coolent started coming out of the van. So we had to get the van towed back to ABQ.

Sean and Dylan slept in the van while Nick, Chris, Guy Jonathon and I went to Guy's friends place. The Jon, Guy and I got dragged to a party. Everybody there was crazy drunk and hitting on us but we didn't stick around for too long.

The next day we spent most of the morning sitting in front of pep boy's while the van was getting worked on. At lunch timeout friend Marina came and took us all sans guy in her nice big Honda Pilot out to lunch in downtown ABQ. Then we hung around downtown for the rest of the day until we found out that the van wasn't going to be fixed until today.

Kindly Marina took us to Whole Foods and Albertson's and we got beer and tons of food for BBQing. We went to her house and ate alot of good that Jonathon made and polished off the thirty pack between like 6 or seven of us (including Dylan Lol).

We decided to stay at her house instead of getting a motel. Right as we were setting up the tents in the backyard, Marina's 19 year old twin sisters came out and told us they were going to some party. By this point all of us were drunk and we invited ourselves along.

We were the center of attention at this party. All of us were being crazy because we didn't give a shot about these people. But they were just eating it up. Dylan and Sean and Jonathon got into the hot tub, Sean was wearing a bikini.

So that party was fun, we went back to Marina's house and it was raining so we all crashed inside instead of camping.

Albuquerque Sunrise
Then Marina drove us to pep boys and we GTFOed out of ABQ. All of us admitted to having a great time there and that it would not be a bad place to live at all.

Now we are driving through Texas an we should get into Austin at about two, entirlely missing the show. Then off to Houston tomorrow.

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