For the last week we've been out playing shows with our friends in Automatic Loveletter and A Cursive Memory. We write you from somewhere on Interstate 80 East in the great state of Indiana tearing towards our show tonight in Cleveland, Ohio. (I hear it's for lovers. We'll be the judge of that).

So far the drives on this tour have been killer. Each show is about six hours apart, so we're driving a lot. We've been splitting up the driving pretty evenly among the band and our two crew members... except Mike, of course, who is a scary driver and not allowed to touch the wheel. Fortunately, we went x-to-the-z xzibit on our van before we left and hooked it up with all kinds of cool stuff to keep us entertained on the rides. Among the pimp-my-ride style essentials: a TV, DVD player and game console that plays both old school Nintendo games and Sega Genesis. The van also has wireless internet now, so Andrew and our tour manager Sam have been having a great time video chatting across the van. We know what you're thinking: "Umm, don't only college co-eds do that?" Totally untrue.

So there we were chugging along and happily IMing our way through Omaha the other day, when we were faced with the least fun part of tour: van maintenance. Yup, got out in Omaha to see a trailer tire completely bald on the outside. When we took it to get checked out, we found out the axle was bent and would continue to eat tires until we replace it. Awesome. That means we'll be eating tires until we can get it serviced on our first day off, which is February 9th. There goes $200 that should've been spent on jerky.

You might be thinking that beef jerky is not a food group (you would be wrong, for one), but not all of us have a Subway gift card like Stephen (thanks, Stephen's mom!). And so while we try to allot our $5 a day for things like salad, which is just delicious from rest stops, sometimes Big Macs and the best jerky ever just win.

Anyway, time to put in a DVD and relax before we pull up to the venue. Maybe Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Some Family Guy? Let's figure it out... See you at the show!

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