My Night On The Floor Of The Bates Motel

Now to be honest, my biggest fear was this drive. This was the middle point of the tour, and everything was going to be driven up a notch after the Kingston show due to the distances that needed to be traveled between shows. We had to drive Kingston to Thunder Bay in two days, that’s almost 2,000 km. If anything bad happened on this leg, we were fucked. The good part of it is that this van is probably the most comfortable mode of transportation I have ever encountered next to either VIA 1 or a Cruise. There is tons of legroom, all the chairs turn into beds, and we have power, PS2, tv, and many more fun oddities of the road. While some of the guys were getting stir crazy I actually enjoyed the fact that we weren’t rushing to get to the next show. We picked up about $150 worth of fireworks that are more than likely to make it into a youtube video of some sort. We finally rolled into Wawa, Ontario (only place to stop between Sault Ste. Marie & Thunder Bay) at around 12am. It was a giant white old house that creaked and was almost certainly 100% empty. I hate to say it, but I was scared. We were in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, at an empty old musty hotel. I don’t even want to know what went on in there. We were greeted with the friendly sign: “FOR ROOM RENTALS, SEE BARKEEP”. I tossed and turned on the floor for a few hours until Storm & Co. arrived. I didn’t really get any sleep, but they did take care of us the next morning for which we are so ever grateful. I can’t comment on what relationships are usually like between openers and headliners, but everybody is definitely treated as equals. I think we would only have more fun if we were all on a tour bus together. Right now we are on our way to “Tunder Baay!”. As sad as it is…this is the last week.