Our f***ing van

So we already had to take our van in once on tour, the morning after the show at the Paradise in Boston. The dealership in MA couldn't find anything wrong with it so we kept going. It gradually got worse and worse over the next few weeks. It was never perfect but seemed like it would at least be able to get us through the tour.

After a really fun incident where I had to restart the van while not being able to accelerate above 20 mph trying to get on the highway in Minneapolis, we decided to take the van into a dealer in Madison. After doing a ton of repairs that forced us to cancel both St. Louis and Lawrence, Kansas we thought we would be ok but it became apparent within an hour of leaving Madison that the van still wasn't 100%. We made it to Denver ok and played one of the better shows of the tour (in front of 400 people, far more than we expected here).

This morning we got up to drive to Salt Lake City. Matt got into the van and said "the key won't move at all." The ignition block was just frozen - couldn't shift, couldn't turn at all, the key wouldn't move an inch. We called AAA and hung out in the parking lot until the repair guy came:


Steve-o took the whole situation in stride, as is his way:


We also decided to re-enact the old "Oh what a feeling" Toyota commercials in tribute to our piece of shit van:


We finally got moving when the van decided to stop accelerating again, so now we are stuck in Fort Collins, Colorado (which smells vaguely of manure). We just saw the Celebrity Fit Club finale. We're very proud of Young MC, who lost an impressive 38 pounds. And now our Domino's pizza is here.