It's on...

Here we go, two days into ZD tour and what an amazing trip it has already been. After an incredible week in the Chicago area with loads of friends and music, I took a painful 8 hour ride to Cincinnati to jump in the bus and get things going. Wednesday afternoon, while waiting for Zach and Jeremy to arrive from Massachusetts, I found myself walking around the city stirring up the buzz about Zach's show later that night at The Mad Frog. I spent a couple hours in beautiful Fountain Square talking to strangers, geeking out over the design of the plaza, and just thinking about how unbelievably excited I am for this journey. I met some GREAT people on the bus and in the city, and a few actually came to that night's show.

Fountain Square - Cincinnati, Ohio:


After 4 hours of killing time and befriending strangers, Zach and Jeremy finally arrived. We grabbed a quick bit, loaded in, soundchecked and got ready for the show. The show was a lot of fun, but the crowd was on the smaller side as Cincinnati doesn't have a very strong music scene. Spirits were still high though, as the three of us were finally on tour and festie season is kicking into full gear. We're at Nelson Ledges on Saturday with two big one hour time slots; that'll be a fun way to say bye to friends and end our brief Midwest swing. After the gig we loaded out and started driving to Morgantown, WV. We ended up going to Meijer (the better half of Target and Wal-mart) around 3 AM and bought some supplies for tour. One necessity for tour was sweet onion salsa and chips, which we killed in about 20 minutes while sitting on the back of the bus laughing, high fiving and just having fun. My body is naturally ready for the tour schedule...wake up at 1 PM, get after it, then pass out around 6 AM. I mean, it's 6:12 AM right now and I'm blogging, waiting to get breakfast in 20 minutes in the hotel lobby.

We just finished our show in Morgantown, WV a couple hours ago; it was a fun crowd. The night started off with the bouncy ball, a new addition to tour that we picked up last night at Meijer. We found so much joy in the ball that we thought it needed to be brought on tour to bring everyone together. After load in and soundcheck, the three of us starting hucking the ball around the venue, slowing gaining participants. This was a lot more fun than expected as people were really getting into it, almost wiping out a couple times to preserve the integrity of the game. You don't want the ball to the hit the ground, right? I mean, c'mon, it's the ground.

Let's be honest though - the real fun was after the show in the form of late night kickball baby! We rounded up a good 15-20 people from the show, went up to the mountain layer of WVU campus and got ready for an intense game. Zach, Jeremy and I were naturally on the same team - preparing for our huge late night wiffleball game tomorrow night in Akron. The game started off well, jumping out to a 14-0 lead, but then we lost it a little bit, losing the lead and going into the last inning down by 2. But we then proceeded to pull it all together and bust out 5 runs, putting us up 25-19. The bottom half of the inning was a little nerve racking, but the game ended on a HISTORIC play. ZD made a diving catch, threw it to me at third after which I fired it back to second base to complete the game-ending TRIPLE PLAY. Epic, historic, legendary...whatever you wanna call it. You needed to experience it.


Well, I derailed on my blog, it's already 7:00 AM, I need to go get grub downstairs. Keep tuning in as I'll be putting up another post after the wiffleball game tomorrow night/Nelson Ledges Summer Kickoff on Saturday. This is just the beginning...it's only gonna get crazier from here!