play it again joe.
Friday May. 16
anaheim, ca

A week or two ago, I was graced with a few emails worth full of pictures from the tour we did late last year. As some of you may remember, our buddy Joe came out to play a handful of instruments with us, and he had a gift of taking pictures at some unique times. So, here we go. All photos courtesy of Joey.

the pre-tour hang at Hole Mole in Long Beach. it's a close walk from Robb's house.

this is probably less than a minute away from our first show of the tour. it was at some ritzy place in Phoenix. it was ritzy we couldn't actually take drinks on the stage cuz they were afraid of spills.

the very necessary documentation of Justin's tattoos.

I wish that I was holding a better case of beer than bud light, but we had two days in Phoenix, so the second day was spent at a backyard bbq / pool party. and apparently, I was gonna be taking a boat out for a spin.

the backstage at the ritzy place in phoenix. jonny is contemplating how hard it is to be rock star.

we had a day off to get to texas, so we spent most of it at hotel congress in tucson. we ate lunch.

just past tucson is the home of THE THING. this is the exit. it was really nice out... a hot day, a quick rain.

justin found his street sign.

now we're in Florida! there are tons of these touristy orange stands. we like touristy orange stands. good thing, right?

in St. Pete, it rained during our show, then we found this frog near the backstage. robb was takin care of it.

THEN IT JUMPED IT JON'S HAIR AND GOT ALL TANGLED!!

we had a day off in Florida so we made it a beach day. we kidnapped some of the Format dudes, and met our friends Kristen and Jamie down at the beach. it was amazing. we found a crab cage buried in the sand and we took it out. no crabs though.

here we are looking for alligators AGAIN. no luck this time.

but the sky is pretty good lookin.

a dude in florida sellin key limes while we were on the way to fort lauderdale. of course, we bought the bag, then made the coronas just that much better when we got to the show. GO TEAM.

we busted a tire around 6am heading north outta Florida. michelle was driving and she freaked and screamed and woke everyone up. then everyone went to sleep except robbdog and me. we unhitched the trailer, and robb sat with it and read a book. I drove the van to find a tire shop and got the tire fixed. oddly enough, this same thing happened in the middle of nowhere Canada, but the Format bus was 15 minutes behind us. so Muzz made them stop and we borrowed their spare trailer tire. problem: we don't have a spare trailer tire. did we fix this problem yet? HELL NO.

we found a new swimming spot in New Mexico. this is in Santa Rosa. it was an amazing day out... we stopped here to do some cliff jumping and relax a bit. unfortunately, when we stopped by this place on our last tour (in late march '08), the lake was waaaaay too low for us to jump in. and it was cold. boo.

onward, to albuquerque.

we had a few days around home... me and Jonny P hit the beach for some surfing. here's us catchin the same wave. even though he's from milwaukee, he's a pro.

carolyn was off for summer break, so she came too. she was a few months away from havin' Coop, if you can't tell.
   * by, patrickcarrie.com at 11:14 am