Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Hello from Ohio. The guys are all asleep and I’m about to hit the rack myself, just thought I should get an update up here on the Road Journal before the day is done. We’re staying in the little cottage that the owners of Peach’s venue provide to touring artists. We stayed here last fall when playing Peach’s, and this has to be one of our favorite stops on tours. The venue has incredible sound, an incredible sound guy (Tom), and some of the nicest staff in the world. Everyone is so accommodating and grooving during the sets, etc… and then to cap it off with a stay here in the little house is awesome.

We had a good drive from Virginia to Yellow Springs, decent weather the entire way until the last 30-40 minutes. We hit a thunderstorm “soaker” that dumped several inches of rain on I-70, leaving us struggling to see the hood of the van while driving well under the speed limit. Not ideal travel conditions, and evidently we’re in for more of the same on the way to the last show of the tour in Kansas. We’ve lucked out with weather the entire trip, so I guess we can’t be greedy. We’ve got a long drive in the morning (9.5 hours), so hopefully the storms don’t slow us down too much. We’re hoping to get to Lake Lotawana by 6pm or so for our 9pm show.

We played a killer version of Wartime tonight, a bit more up tempo than usual, but it really grooved. The bartender at the venue told us that “Diggin’ in the Dirt” is one of her favorite songs and that we ‘nailed it.’ So I guess that’s good… and we put our Sharpies to use, with people asking us to sign CD’s at our set break. we all felt good about tonight, and we’re looking forward to playing one more show and then sleeping in our own beds at the end of the weekend.

I didn’t get the photos from Anton’s camera yet (sorry!), but I’ll post them in the “charlottesville” post below as soon as I have them.

Dave Chapelle didn’t show up at the show tonight, if you were wondering.

Hasta for now, time to get some sleep… we’re up and out of here at 9am.