So we are coming up on the half way point of The Eastpak Antidote tour and things have been awesome. I’ve attempted to write this blog several times in the past couple of days and update you guys on how things are but honestly there isn’t too much to update you on. We have been playing awesome shows, meeting awesome people and seeing a lot of sites. SO, that being said I’m going to try something out of the box a little bit and blog about some things that are on my mind and update you at the same time. Like I said earlier we’ve been seeing a lot of very beautiful sites in mainland Europe and the more places we play the more I am starting to realize that America is a really young country. There are so many buildings in all of the cities that are centuries old, epic churches, massive squares, endless libraries, cobblestone roads, and even some of the venues we have been playing have so much history in them.



The common phrase I’ve noticed coming out of all of our mouths is "Wow we don’t have things like this in the states". I feel like America is so concentrated on moving forward that we sometimes forget to look back on our past. We bulldoze landmarks and move cemeteries to put shopping malls and fast food restaurants in their place. No wonder Europeans have a bad taste in their mouths for us sometimes. When they look at us all they see is people waiting for the next bigger better thing. Never stopping to "stop and smell the roses". We have been seeing all the traditional tourist sites and trying some traditional food here and there, I’m not too big on trying stuff but I’ve been attempting to broaden my horizons. Outside of that in the past 24 hours of writing this blog we have been pulled over twice by German border control, crossed the Swiss border and seen more snowin 20 minutes than I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Things are starting to pick up event wise in the Veara camp so expect a hopefully more entertaining blog next week!

Bryan