finale 1

few more shows here and there, some good some not so good. but overall response has been more than expected with some shows superior to Aussie shows. nothing too much to chat about in cities other than Portland last night. the drive from salt lake to Portland was simply amazing. the most beautiful drive on tour, 80pcent of the 7 hour drive consisted of a huge river to our right, with breathtaking mountains and cliffs with waterfalls in the distance to the right, with similar cliffs hard up to our left. Photos don’t give it justice as usual. we arrived around 2.30 to the outskirts of Portland and all I could think about was how close we were to Seattle and nirvana history …ahh well! so helmet, emma, callum and mo, aussie friends who met up with us at the venue. sooooo good, missed those two lads heaps! we headed up to a vegan strip mall and had a pepperoni and seitan sanga, then we grabbed some drinks, everyone got lokos and I stuck to my pbr and we headed down to the worldwide famous skate park 200m from the venue called burnside. the park was featured in Tony hawk 1 on playstation which I played a bunch as a tacker. cool to see it in real life! then an another old Aussie friend Rachel vezer met up with me, we shot around the corner to a bar and caught up and reminisced about the old days and people, great to see her too! show was great, bit of a drama with our driver so Aaron the trucker from ghost inside took the overnight drive to Oakland.
so we arrived at 10am, and San francisco is 15mins from Oakland – boom! 5 hours in SF, golden gate bridge viewing, Alcatraz from afar, good ol pumpkin spice latte, amazing city, a huge mall we hunted down that had amazing vegan cuisine in a food court – chicken pesto roll! SOLID RON!