June 2010
14 posts
Monday June 28 Yorba Linda, CA
Today we were able to invest our time into our band’s true passion, disc golf. Just ten minutes from David’s house you will find two disc golf courses inside one well-kept park at La Mirada Regional. The first round we bet drinks and the second time we bet shakes. My team won the second time around and we hit the In-N-Out for some delicious burgers and shakes. It was Jon’s first time to the...
Sunday June 27 Diamond Bar, CA
We try and go to church when we’re on the road, but it can be hard when you’re in a random city and on a tight traveling schedule. Today’s drive was short though, and we made it to the morning service at the church we played last night. The people were nice, and I even sold more cds and shirts after the service straight out of our trailer. BJ, the promoter from the show the night before, hooked us...
Saturday June 26 Yucca Valley, CA
I woke up early even though we went to bed around 4am and discovered that Jon had already made his way down to breakfast in the lobby. The continental breakfast was average and I was able to get some work done on the computer before the rest of the crew woke up. The drive was extremely hot to Yucca Valley. At one point we had the windows down and the heater on full blast and the engine temperature...
Friday June 25 Phoenix, AZ
We woke up this morning to French crepes and a fresh pot of coffee. We said our goodbyes and made our way to the sunny city of Phoenix. During the drive we had to have the heater on so our engine wouldn’t overheat, not the ideal situation for five guys in a van but we lived. Once we arrived in Phoenix we met the promoter at the venue early in the afternoon so we could load in and get all set up...
Thursday June 24 Flagstaff, AZ
Headed west this morning at 2:30am from Wichita. Andy and I took the first shift driving and watched a few movies along the way. Everyone was tired and pulling shorter shifts than usual. The longest drive of the entire tour fell on day one, so it can only get easier from here. 20+ hours in a van, no matter the amount of movies and music will wear at a person’s soul. The states are so wide and...
The Left Coast
I hit the road with Abandon Kansas again this week and we’re headed to my favorite part of the country, the west coast, specifically the pacific northwest. For show info, times, addresses, and anything else you would need to know please visit www.myspace.com/abandonkansas
I plan on turning my tumblr account into a road journal for this tour. I’ve never done something like that before...
Independence Pt. 2
I appreciate all the thoughts and feedback, public or private, and I always want tohear what you have to say. After several messages from readers I feel the need to explain a section from yesterday’s post; “I still think I am the best owner and operator for my life. I want God to be involved, but I’d rather Him not take over all together. Especially when it comes to romantic...
Independence Pt. 1
Do you like being alone? Are you afraid of being alone more than anything? Some of us are self-sufficient in every regard (independent) and some of us are completely helpless when it comes to choosing a career or mailing a letter (interdependent). Some of us would do everything it takes to preserve our freedom, and some of us would put up with anything inside an unhealthy relationship if it...
A Conversation With The Sky
Marry this age, a widower the next
You can’t just give yourself away
Floating in the wake of everybody else
Go your own way
We’ll paint the sunset our own shade tonight
Whatever colors you like
I’ve never seen a moon that shined so bright
Color to my ears, and music to my eyes
We drove til the tires left the road
The perfect end to a not so perfect week
All my senses in full attendance...
Gray Areas Pt. 3
In Colossians 3 Paul pleads with his fellow believers to kill the sin in their lives. Yesterday I mentioned how pitting sin against sin only produces more sin. In pride we keep our struggles to ourselves, relying on our own strength to defeat a battle we’ll never win on our own. I don’t think any one of us is a stranger to this feeling of helplessness when it comes to dealing with our own vices....
Gray Areas Pt. 2
It doesn’t do much good to ask for advice on gray areas if our intention isn’t to glorify God and eventually move on from those gray areas all together. I want to grow in love, not just flex my freedom. In my short 25 years on the planet, I’ve learned that Satan wins little battles in a quiet manner. He drags us down the slippery slope so leisurely we barely notice. Then one day we wake up and...
Gray Areas Pt. 1
My Christian friends and I are prone to ask where the line is. I speak of my Christian friends and I because if you haven’t set out to serve God in the first place, then you wouldn’t care much about the gray areas of right and wrong from a biblical perspective. I would never expect you to identify fully with where I’m coming from when our world views are in opposition.
These are...
The Gamble
I want to rid myself of this monster that always wonders if there is something better out there. You know the one, you know it well, that secretly hopes nothing ever fully works itself out. The one that furtively prays the chase is never over because you’ve learned that once you find it, it’s gone and once you feel it, you don’t.
I have a very hard time stopping, even slowing down, and enjoying...
The Golden State
I can tell your heart is a forest And it hasn’t rained here in years Then I came around and the whole place caught on fire And I left you here California is burning like a cigarette, flick the ash into the sea California is burning, the whole state’s gonna fall in If you don’t stop fallin for me The sky is dark tonight in this town All the stars are in bed or on the ground ...
