For real this time, and not when I'm drinking homemade cocktails in a kitchen while using someones laptop...
So far, both myself and TD have been in North Carolina for two nights now, ahead of the others arriving in Austin on Thursday for the start of the tour. To cut a story short, we discovered that Daniel (of Sorry State Records, Logic Problem, Devour, and Limits booking enterprises) was planning to drive all the way from North Carolina to Austin by himself in the van to get to Austin for the start of tour, so we decided to come ahead to keep him company. Thankfully, this also meant we had time to relax beforehand, which is something we almost never get to do on tour, or even at home, so we jumped on it.
We left my flat in Holloway around 9am on Monday after Tim finished his 12 hour nightshift at the hospital and took the train to Heathrow, of course remembering to sing along to '29 Bus' by Hygiene on the bus of the same name, while carrying bags full of crap and punk post. Once we got to Heathrow, and had our token overpriced breakfast (big price / small portion - the best of both worlds), and took a pretty uneventful, cramped flight to Chicago, consuming sleeping pills and trying to clear my head of various shit that no-one needs to be bored with, trying to be nice to immigration and finally getting on the worlds smallest aeroplane and getting to Greensboro.
Once there, we quickly met up with Daniel, found out our bags weren't actually put on the plane, and went to eat Thai food with Daniel's girlfriend Jet, who is an elementary school teacher and quite the character. We hit up the local hipster bar after that and
then headed back for a collection of home made drinks (as documented below. I was definitely too scared to try the Cheese Vodka) and crashed out in a nearby guest house that Jet had hooked up for us.
DAY 2
Today was supposed to be all about errands, and getting stuff ready for the tour, but was instead dedicated to much more important things. Namely, spending 3 hours drinking beer, floating on 'water noodles' and talking shit in a quarry in the middle of the woods in Durham. It was pretty amazing. A mile walk into the woods there's a 100 x 100 meter wide spot that has pretty much ice cold water, which is perfect for the 36 degree heat we're experiencing at the moment. Apart from the token moments I couldn't actually stay afloat on the two of these things that were between my legs (did I mention the water was over 50 feet deep right at the very edge, only to get way, way deeper as you go on), it was the most relaxed I've been in a long, long time, and everything that was in the back of my mind seemed to fuck off for a bit. I'll post pictures of us all squirming at some point. After that the errands actually had to happen, but not before eating the most ridiculous sweet potato burrito, but that's another story.
Tour starts in two days, kicking off with Chaos In Tejas, and routine will kick in soon enough, but until then I'm enjoying the nearest thing to a holiday I've had since forever.
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