if we survive this drive...

...we can do ANYTHING AT ALL. i mean it. when we woke up this morning in denton, TX and plugged in Los Angeles as our final destination, our GPS system just flashed 'are you f@*king kidding me??' that was all she said. i know, i'd never seen that before either but i guess that what happens when you put in a location 1,400 miles away.

And now at 9:19pm after filling the oil and wiper fluid?
Drum role my fine fluttering friends... 830 Miles. Holler back to you.

And we are NOT. I repeat, NOT calling it a night.
With Smith having just finished his shift, Heather takin' over and Noah and James Sleepin' in the back preparing for their shifts... this is gonna be one for the books.

There certainly will be a "Hush" falling on LA tomorrow.
(see what I did there?... that's a song... of ours, that we sing...)
BOOYA!

And now some eye treats...

New York...
to New Mexico...

Thinking about putting one of these up in Central Park.

~JHJ

ahhhhhhh!

we're here! we're here! shoot. more than 2 days passed. we're sorry dangit.

the last two nights we've played really fun shows with a great band called 'civil twilight.' the first was in austin - WE LOVE AUSTIN! we swam at barton springs, got some sage hot sauce advice, ate until we nearly burst and got to play to a full room at stubb jr's! our dear friends danielle and elizabeth were kind enough to house us and didn't give us a hard time for coming in at nearly 3am! now that's friendship.

last night was in tulsa - our first time in oklahoma! we had a blast playing at cain's and enjoying some of the local flavors, you know like greek salads and coors. we met a ton of wonderful people and one in particular, our new friend chris, made the night super special by offering to let us crash at his house. new friend and comfortable lodging all in one fell swoop! after the show we grabbed a drink with the fellas from 'civil twilight' and partook in a hilarious game of pool with some extremely memorable locals. it was great. this morning we SLEPT IN for the first time in days and ate a scrumptious brunch of waffles and scrambled eggs (all homemade by the aforementioned chris) and watched 'total recall.'

i guess you could say the last 72hrs have been pretty great. touring is fun.
jhj

new phobia

so we have a fear of bulldozers now.
dozerphobia i guess you could call it.
why you may ask?

within the first 2 minutes of this tour, the first big tour we've done with our beautiful new sprinter we might add, we found ourselves in the middle of an action movie.

PICTURE THIS:
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construction site.

the flag lady told us to go...so we went.

half way through...this HUGE crane arm comes swinging into our lane.

we skidded and swerved to miss it. we screamed like 6 year old girls.

time stood still as we awaited the seemingly inevitable contact of metal on metal.

miraculously, there was no ear-shattering CRASH. we opened our eyes in time to see the crane arm backing off.

we convinced our hearts to start beating again and drove on...smarter.
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can you blame us for our dozerphobia? after 2 catastrophic vehicular failures in the last year and a half, a rogue crane arm would have been the last straw. we all would have throw up our hands and found jobs as accountants or teachers or anything where a crane arm can't set fire to all your dreams.


YAY FOR HAPPY ENDINGS TO ACTION MOVIES! THANK YOU DIE HARD!
texas is hot and it's boiling our brains,
jamesheatherjames

A DECLARATION

To our beloved, dedicated and abandoned readers,

It should be easy to keep a blog. It should be as simple as typing a few amusing, anecdotal nothings every few days and throwing a picture in every so often for good measure.

You’d think it would be easy. You’d think anyone could do it.

Well let me tell you right now – you’d be wrong to think these things.

Keeping this road blog current has proven to be one of the most insurmountable challenges of our career thus far. It easily outweighs hauling gear, driving for hours on end and working day jobs to make ends meet. It reminds me a little bit of flossing – so simple and yet it always seems like there just aren’t enough hours in the day to run a waxed piece of string between your teeth every morning and night. Who’s got 3 extra minutes lying around these days? Not in this economy, am I right?

So all of this is a long-winded way of apologizing to those of you who dutifully check this road blog and are continually disappointed at the dearth of new entries. We know we’re letting you down and we don’t feel good inside about it. Now, we’re not gonna stand here (so to speak) and make any promises we can’t keep – we’re no perez. But we would like to make a pledge for the tour we are embarking on today. That pledge is this:

WE PROMISE TO KEEP THIS BLOG UPDATED AT LEAST EVERY OTHER DAY FOR THE DURATION OF THIS TOUR, WHICH STARTS TODAY, AUGUST 25 AND ENDS SEPTEMBER 12TH. WE MAKE THIS PLEDGE OUT OF LOVE FOR OUR READERS, WHO HAVE STOOD BY US THROUGH MONTHS OF SILENCE.

Thank your friends for helping us make this terrifying yet essential step forward as bloggers. We won’t let you down.

Until tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow at the very latest),
jamesheatherjames