We made the drive.

So we made our drive, unbelievable. We all said to each other that we were going to make it but none of us really thought we would. 3300 miles in 2,5 days. The first day we hadn't even left North Carolina when a tire exploded on the highway. Two new tires later we were off again. We had a mattress in the back, one drove, one kept the driver awake and one slept - then we rotated. South Dakota was not very fun, one straight road with two turns but Wyoming and Montana was really beautiful up in the mountains.

We had some issues by the border, they seemed to think that Christian was smuggling 2 Swedes over the border. They questioned us for a long time, three different persons were staring me in the eye before they gave up.

We arrived in Vancouver Thursday morning and we got a place to stay at this great house where Mark the bass player took really good care of us. Thanks Mark.

The 2 shows we did at Rime was awesome and I couldn't have had a better time in Vancouver. Thanks to all of you who came out and to Ben and his crew. We'll miss you.

From Vancouver we went on this beautiful boat ride to Nanaimo before we took the next one over to Denman Island. On Denman we met up with Kevin Mitchell and the venue was amazing, wooden floors, fireplace etc. Kevin also got us a place to stay at this gorgeous house on the beach, everything was just perfect, Canadians surely know how to treat their foreign roadrunners!

The next day we headed south again to reach Victoria where we met our good friend Theresa and her two daughters Felicity and Melody. We played that night at Ocean Island Lounge at Backpackers Inn. I ever did a show at a hostel before. We showed up and no one seemed to be there but after everything was set up and Helena started playing her first song, the little room was packed.

Yesterday we played at one of the coolest venues I've ever seen, Duncan Garage Showroom run by John Longevity. It's a mix between an old theatre and a cinema and they are serving Coffee combined with popcorn. John has eleven dogs and we got to meet all of them, now I'm writing from a pull out coach in his rehearsing room.

Life is good although it's too bad this tour is about to end. It seems like we are just getting started. Although I just extended it with 10 more days because we want to have a little bit more time to drive back to NYC from here. Right now we are looking tfor shows in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Lethbridge, Regina, Montreal and Toronto. If someone has suggestions please let us know.

I just uploaded two Swedish festivals on the tour schedule that me and The Seasick Sailors will visit this summer.

Much love / G