Road Journal

25 October 2008

headed south. (Boston, Massachusetts)

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We bid adieu to the farm in Sudbury this morning, which has been our home for the week. What a gorgeous property to have as our homebase on tour. Comfortable beds for all of us, 9 acres of pastures and woods to wander during the day, and peace and quiet for writing, meditating, and generally relaxing. We can’t wait to be back there in April.

Beers’ dad has a mechanic shop just outside Boston, so we took the van there to get a look-over, and his dad fixed the hitch on the van, which was about ready to fall off after bouncing down the interstate to Philadelphia. I-95 is the bane of our existence on tour. Always full of traffic, always crappy roads that beat up the van, and tolls to add insult to the injury. The trailer hitch was getting jerked around like crazy, and the left side of it basically snapped off the frame.


We got it reattached and solid, and we’re now making our way south to Virginia. It’s about a 10 hour drive to Charlottesville, where we’re playing at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar tonight. We’re staying at another gorgeous farm outside of the city tonight, which should lend itself to a good night of sleep for all of us.

Last night’s show at Boston College was a lot of fun. As our booking luck would have it, the biggest rivalry in BC’s hockey season took place at precisely the same time as our set, on the opposite side of campus. As a result, the crowd was thin at the beginning of the show… but it grew quickly. The room was full of students by the time we took a set break, and at the end of the show, we found ourselves signing autographs on posters peeled off the walls around the room by the students. I got to have some great milk and chocolate chip cookies, and we met some really great kids who we’re sure to see again in the spring. The BC student reps who booked us said that they want to have us back in April for sure, so it looks like our spring tour is coming together already. Woo-hoo. Thanks to Corri for signing up for the Backstage Community before we had even played a note! She was one of the few in the room at the beginning of the set, and my guitar decided to crap out on me right as we started, along with some issues with the soundboard (I apparently shouted the lyrics to “Park” at the room, but I had my in-ear monitors in, and couldn’t hear it)… so “thank you” to Corri for having faith in us as we worked out the technical kinks, and welcome to the burgeoning Backstage community!
That’s it for now. More later, and photos of Virginia to boot…
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