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Left to Right: Mechanic, Garet, Steve, Reuben the Salesman

Yesterday marked the first day of our Western United States tour.  All of the dates have now been posted. We had planned to wake up early, meet at the rehearsal studio in Santa Ana around 7:30am to load our new van and trailer, and get on the road to San Francisco around 9am.  Feeling a little relieved after finally purchasing a van 2 days before (see photo above), come Sunday night, we were still a little concerned about the trailer.  As it turns out, it had been broken into by some schmuck who decided to cut the security hatch on the trailer door instead of the actual lock, only to find it was empty.  But we were now stuck with getting the hatch welded.  Some nice muffler place in the Orange Circle did the welding for free.  So after getting the hitch hooked up, the trailer welded, and electrical connection adapter for the lights on the trailer, and everything packed, we were on the road yesterday by noon.

We got to San Francisco by 7:30pm just in time for our soundcheck at Elbo Room.  SF has been unusually cold an windy, but the show was warm and cozy.  Glaciers was massive, Strings and Ghosts were wonderful and Death Valley High was the pinnacle of rock n’ roll.  It sounded like they ate a big bowl of “Master Volume 11″ for breakfast.  It was amazing.

I’ve been sitting in a coffee shop called SoCha writing this post on one of our “transit” days.  After lengthy consideration, we decided that the travel distance between San Francisco and our next show in Sacramento was just too strenuous.  Hey, it’s the plight of an independent band booking their own tour.

Till next time,
Steve

P.S.  Two words:  Taqueria Cancun.