Living the dream…sort of…
I sit here on the couch after having got back from our last tour run at 6am this morning. This last trip wasn’t a long one, but it sure took it out of me. Bryan got a cold a week ago, and he has most generously passed it on to me, Brandon and who knows who else. In addition to that, a couple of the guys from Staggerford and myself got the flu from someone or something at our show in Le Mars, IA last week. Unfortunate, but well worth a fun show that night in Iowa.
In addition to the illness we had a couple mishaps on this last trip. Driving through Iowa we hid a asteroid-sized pothole that rocked the bus so hard that our TV in the front lounge went black and never came back. So Case and I tore the TV out and put in Andrew’s bunk for safe-keeping. =) The most uncomfortably though, it’s been soooooo cold here in Nebraska that our toilet tank (the tank that stores the pee pee on the bus) froze up in one big solid 50 gallon block of pee pee. So we took a step back to the days of riding in the diesel van and made pitstops every now and then to make sure nobody wet their bunk. Yes, this is an exciting life we live that never seizes to humble us in the most peculiar of ways.
Anyway, I thought some of you aspiring musicians out there should know, a record deal and a tour bus doesn’t mean a free ride to Hollywood like American Idol makes it look. The life on the road is not without it’s surprises and inconveniences. You still deal with the same dumb stuff and a whole lot more. It’s all in how you deal with it and shrug it off. You just have to learn how to embrace the unexpected and know that this crazy life still goes on. Much love!
