Iowa Apes.

Hello from the van, as we pass Lewis & Clark State Park and the Omaha Indian Reservation on I-29 northbound. We’re in Iowa for a brief period here before the highway swings northwest into South Dakota. We’re making decent time to Sioux Falls, though there’s tons of construction and slower speed limit zones every 20 minutes or so. Anton’s driving, Fred’s snoozing in the back bench row, and the rest of us are hanging out online and watching corn field after corn field go by. Just passed a “Sioux City – 35 miles” sign. We all rested well last night, and Beers & Jay grabbed some Cracker Barrel for breakfast this morning, while Anton, Fred, and I strolled over to King Kong Burger for ours.

Hi.

The Monkees.

King Kong.

What you can’t tell from the photo is that each of the 4 patties is 8″ wide

Apey Beers

Apey Anton

Apey Russ.

jam

foots.

We don’t play until 9:30pm tonight, so we’re on a relaxing schedule for the day, which is nice. Beautiful weather again today – upper 60’s and completely blue skies. Good times. We just watched a video of Semisonic playing “Closing Time” at the Pink Pop Festival in Germany back in 2001. Pretty funny to see, after playing with them last weekend in Denver; must be weird to be a one-hit-wonder and play for 80,000 people thanks to one single song – and still milk it a decade later. We’ve been enjoying “Yacht Rock” videos on YouTube this tour, too. Not much else to report until tonight. Hopefully my gear bag is sitting waiting for me in Sioux Falls right now – if not, we’ll have to write an interesting setlist tonight.

We did just pass a sign for the “National Music Museum,” which is evidently is Vermillion, South Dakota. And we also just realized that our show tomorrow night in Grand Forks, North Dakota marks the northernmost show we’ve played in our short history – it’s actually very close to the northernmost point of the lower 48 contiguous states; higher than the northern tip of Maine. Crazy. We’re actually pretty close to Winnepeg, Canada. The weather forecast is for 16 degrees tomorrow night. We’re all in t-shirts, so that was some poor planning. Should be fun.

Okay, more later… thanks for sticking with us.