Tour Blog
Intro: If You Build It
It’s that time of year again folks! For a couple of blissful months, you can put aside your news blogs, your streaming of...
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Day 1: A Soggy Seattle Art Museum Fundraiser
As a rare treat and send off, our first gig for the tour happened to be in our own backyard! Well, not literally...
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Day 2: Audio Lab Studios in Boise
All I have to say, for the rest of time, is THIS is the ultimate winner of “Best Ways To Welcome A Band...
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Day 3: In the Buff Again
So, because of our unique connection and reputation with nudist parks, we are always keen to find one near places we may be...
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Day 4: Some Reflections While Driving
When you unintentionally do irreversible damage to a friendship, how do you move forward? When I become close with someone, I am an...
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Day 5: A Little Time Off
As we walked into the coffee shop we found in Brigham City (just outside Ogden, UT), Rudyard said, “Now THIS is the tour...
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Day 6 – 8: Small Town, Sickness, and a Show
One of the most difficult parts of touring is the down time. Sometimes we can get lucky with pick-up gigs, or open mic...
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Day 9 – 10: Back With Friends
Holed up in the basement with my longest, lifetime friend, Marianne Brown, and her partner, Nate (who Rudy adores) and we were finally...
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Day 11: Old Friend, New Friends, and an Open Mic
Once we’d settled in and gotten a bunch of “fun” out of the way, we decided to have more fun! Actually, we looked...
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Day 12: A Little Date Night and Another Open Mic
Because of some unforeseen empty holes in our schedule this summer, we needed to spend a bit more time than usual at the...
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Day 13 – 14: You. Are. Here.
As promised, we looked up a used video game store in the area and, after another day of pool fun for a few...
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Day 15: Tough Day, Tough Night
A really difficult morning for Rudy. He woke with huge tears in his eyes and pretty much continued the crying until we dropped...
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Day 16: Moving On
Jared here: I’ll kick this one off, as I had taken all the pictures. After a relaxing morning in Durango, as we took...
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Day 17: Major Facepalm in Pueblo
This travel day started out really lovely. We knew it was gonna be a scorcher, so we wanted to find a place inside....
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Day 18: Flirting with Disaster
Our last day of travel until we get to Yankton. We could have done it in two days, but since our first gig...
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Day 19: Mosquitos – Jared
Jared here: I like to keep active, and that usually takes the form of my regular workouts. I use an app on my...
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Day 19: The Yankton Beach – Jessi
Had someone asked me a few years ago where I wanted to vacation, I never in a million years would have said, “Yankton,...
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Day 20: Letting Go
Letting go.They say one day it’s so.They encourage you to do it slow.Do it before they grow.So it’s easier to, you know…Move on.BEFORE...
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Day 21: Fire and Rain in Yankton
After a productive couple days of getting work done, reflections on all kinds of things, making plans, even working on a new song,...
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Day 22: A Show Two Years in the Making
Two years ago, Jared and I joined a network of people who put on and book living room shows, and the artists who...
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Day 23: Our Paradise on the Missouri River
Being welcomed back to Ben’s Brew Station for our last gig in Yankton was a perfect way to round out our shows for...
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Day 24: Whack-F*#k
Our friends, Nate and Heather, aka, Heaven and Kevin, said, “Let’s go golfing!” to which we replied, “Sure. Why not?” (Jared here: Nate...
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Day 25: Finding a Place To Go Find Things That Have Been Found
I love antique stores and all they embody. Past and present, junk and quality, broken and preserved, it is all there. Anything you...
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Day 26 – 28: With Fondness
Saying good bye is never fun or easy. So we did some things to aid in the process of leaving Yankton. With the...
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Day 29: Feelings About Keystone
Well, after some down time, Jared and I were eager to get another show under our belt. We made the drive from Yankton...
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Day 32 – 33: Here Comes the Sun
(Jared here: The more astute of you may have noticed a sudden gap in the “Day” count. That’s because It felt like we’ve...
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Day 34: Love and Friendly Competition
With a couple good nights’ sleep and the kind of love only family can provide, we were excited to play our second open...
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Day 34 (addendum): You Belong
Jared here: I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for writing to us after we posted about our experience in Keystone....
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Day 35: The Road to Albuquerque
I honestly love the blogs where I just get to lightly report on things we’ve seen and simpler times. This day of tour...
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Day 36: Albuquerque . . . A Town
Actually, the once “little” town of Albuquerque “Has grown, and continues to do so.”, says local coffee roaster and 8th grade teacher, Thaison...
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Day 37: Bisbee, Trish, and the Grand Hotel
The vast dessert sky greeted us with open arms as we barreled out of Albuquerque almost before our alarms went off. We had...
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Day 38: Our Kind of Town
This day was the never-ending day. I’m including so many pictures in this blog, but there were so many more I could have...
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Day 39: The Royale Treatment
Our last show in Bisbee was a bit strange. We were booked at the historic Royale Theater. A beautifully big building at the...
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Day 40: Bisbee Finale
(Jared here: Before we get to our last day, I‘d like to share with you a little experience that we had on our...
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Day 41-43: Las Cruces for the Win
Jared and I had a few days off and had a bunch to get done to catch up on our blog. We needed...
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Day 44: The Longest Month
They say that the time away at camp is always harder on the parents than it is on the kids… this year, I’m...
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Day 45 – 46: Reassembling
What we didn’t know about the week before we got him was that Rudy had been battling a cold. He never mentioned it...
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Day 47: Leaving for the Last Leg
The next day was our scheduled day to leave, but Rudy was feeling a bit better, so we decided to hang around town...
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Day 48 – 49: Ah, Missoula
So, we made it to Missoula and were warmly greeted by the sons of our friends, Brooke and Joe. Rudy wasn’t with us...
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Day 50: Where Your Feet Are
The day began with the always dreaded, but widely anticipated “jump” photo that I’ve been making (I mean “asking”) the boys to take...
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Day 51: A Little Farm Time
Our Friday night gig had us back up at the Klippenes Farm, a super-welcoming, sweet little homestead, with animals, a small lake, a...
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Day 52: Final Show of the Tour
I snapped this picture to commemorate setting up the merchandise for the very last time on the road. We most definitely have all...
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Day 53: Was the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
(Jared here: I feel like this song provides a fitting soundtrack while you read this post: Rachel Portman – much loved. Take a...
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