goin' out west

Just like the Tom Waits song Goin' Out West, we went out west.
I started the tour blog in the same notebook I got last fall going out east and I gave up a page and a half into it. I'll still recap the whole tour. For now, here's the beginning...
7-8-07
I think it was good luck that we left for tour on 7-7-07. It was an early morning and 10 hours of driving but we made it to Cory's cousin's house near Kansans City around midnight. Highlights include finding ANOTHER Pinecone Restaurant in Brooklyn, Iowa and learning it's a chain, with another in Oregon. I hope we get to that one later in the week. Other bits of awesome include the Salisbury Slap, iPod porn starring Shy Love in Big Sausage Pizza(PG-rated link), and pulling away from Cory's in Schaumburg to the tune of Samwell's "What What (in the butt)":

Not much sucked other than the heat in Chicago and the foot dragging on Cockthirsty in Kansas, but it wasn't a big deal. Right now, it's 10:36am and we're about an hour away from Omaha and a shower and a swimming pool.
7-9-07
The Omaha show was pretty good, but not many people were there. We made friends with the bartender and drank for a few hours before the show. Turns out we out drank the band bar tab 3 times over. Good times, whiskey, and lots of laughs helped ease my nervousness before our first show on tour and all went well. Boo and Boo Too were good and noisy. I picked up their CD. Drakes Hotel were nice people and had a cool trailer. Turns out they were moving to Portland after the show. The hotel pool was closed for cleaning but looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. The water was swampy green and looked thick, sort of like the Chicago river. Chris had been wanting to try Sonic burgers and we found a delivery menu in the lobby of the hotel. He called the number and it was a delivery service run by a guy and we think his wife. She says he doesn't like to carry drinks, so they're not on the menu. We were bummed because we heard the Sonic shakes were really good. From the sound of it, you call the number , make an order, this guy goes to Sonic to get your food and takes it directly to your hotel room. Yup. The burgers and tater tots were okay. We woke up early and left at 6am for Denver. At this rate we'll get there in about 4 hours. The geography is changing already and we see more hills. More later.