Show Journal 1999-08-17
Day 11 – The drive today was very nice but very uneventful. I discovered that the small broom we have is a good fly exterminator. The fly problem now dwindles each hour. We tried to stop at the ‘meteor crater’ in Arizona but it cost 9 dollars a person to see it. Can you believe it? 9 dollars to see a three mile stretch of earth caused by mother nature? We are once again out of band money thanks to the cancelled shows in Dallas and OK City. We are now paying out of our own pockets again. Before Kingman, we got on Route 66 for a while and got a glimpse of the Grand Canyon. I had only seen it from a plane, very cool. The show in Kingman rocked. The guys at the club unloaded for us and gave us a full sound check. Rock on. Cool place, nice people and they had a sound system which gives the biggest and best clubs a run for their money. The two hours of metal songs for the opening bands “soundcheck” was a bit much to endure, but after so many hours in the van my patience level is at an all time high. The show was good, and it was nice to play again. I had almost forgot why I had been the van all this time. Due to the cancellations, this was our second show in six days. Props to Deborah for selling our shirts and CD’s! The show ran late, but we decided to stay at a truck stop on the road to Las Vegas. Turns out there are no truck stops on the way to Vegas, so we ended up driving much longer than we anticipated … all the way to Vegas. We got to see the Hoover Dam which was rad. Since it was 2 in the morning, we missed the tour, but it was all lit up. More impressive than the dam, was pulling up over the mountains to see the Vegas sky line at night. There are lights as far as you can see in either direction. It was surreal, very impressive after so many miles of late night driving. By now it was really late and we discovered that Las Vegas truck stops are patrolled lots, so we ended up having to drive 20 minutes past the city to find a truck stop we could sleep in.
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