By: Caulen Kress
November 03, 2008 12:00 PM

This past month, I took my first extended vacation since going to Thailand in March 2007. This wasn't a "fun in the sun" trip - most of the time, relaxing meant sleeping for 4 hours at a time in a cramped conversion van with four of my closest friends, my band mates. That's right - it was time for our little rock band to hit the road again. After months of planning (Myspace makes it much easier, but being around for a while and building contacts in other cities has been crucial), and after a successful evening that allowed us to celebrate the release of our new album TWICE (outside even - it was a nice crisp night, not too cold luckily!), we piled in the van for a two week+ trip that would send us in a counter-clockwise compass dial starting east, from the Atlantic ocean in Rhode Island to Montreal (which included, as it always does, a pretty nerve-wracking border check that has been known to turn away perfectly legal/legitimate bands) to Columbia, Missouri and finally to Louisville, our home-away-from-home. 

It was a very successful (by our standards) trip, and though I was running PHP code through my head every now and then, I look forward to doing it again in the spring!

Also - big thanks to Rebecca here at 400lb.com for all of her design help! Our CD wouldn't look nearly as good as it does without her expert design help.