tour day 4- Happy birfday 'Merica

Hi there. I am currently in the van typing today's blog entry that should have been done last night but i'm a busy busy man so this will have to do. So if memory serves me right i last left you guys with us in long island hanging out with some crazy people. that evening, we slept on hard wood floor, and woke up to guests arriving to the families 4th of july party. So we left there and had to buy some oil for our small but irritating oil leak from the van. we also realized that the door handle didn't want to secure. so we would be driving with the back door flopping in the wind. Steve Peterson used his keen "fixin' stuff" skills he developed in the jungles of south america along with the ones learned in 7th grade tech ed. to take apart the lock and fix the problem. and off we went through the great.... ok at best state of new jersey. and further south to delaware.

i'm going to use this moment to bring you into the personal lives of the andrea doria on tour. most bands are all about touring to get new fans, and sell alot of merch. for us those are just gravy on the undercooked dinner of our touring experience. some of our hobbies on the road include finding alcohol that is not available in Syracuse NY. (such as maddog 20/20, mickey's hand grenades, and santana champagne) another one is eating at shitty fast food places unavailable to us at home (sonic, cici's pizza, in and out burger, bojangel's crystals....etc.)

so to make a long story longer... we ate at a sonic in delaware and all was right with the world. As we went deeper south, we arrived at Virginia Beach, but not before driving over an 11 mile bridge that goes over the ocean and into tunnels under the ocean. now i'll take minute to tell you that i don't like driving on bridges... but i did it!!!

we didn't have a show booked for today, so we decided to have cook out on virgina beach... literally on the beach. so on virginia beach we made camp with a mini grill, burgers, hot dogs, cherry pepsi, mickey's and miller high life in hand. some girl came up and said she was dared to throw water on us. so i promply spilled her bucket of water and was like "awww crap now you can't do it". we then spent some time getting flipped off by the party on their beach blanket and returned fire. later as steve was walking by he made small conversation with them, and mentioned that we were from syracuse. turned out one of the girl's boyfriends grew up in syracuse and went to our high school. to make matter even crazier... her boy friend is one of matt's best friends who moved away. so now we have friends in Virginia beach.

anywho, after our beach adventure, i drove for 2 hours to get us back to the walmart we were at prior. the GPS said it would take 10 minutes, but apparently ALOT of people go to virgina beach for the 4th of july. crazy. so the 10 mile highway drive took 2 hours.

so for another night, i slept with sandy feet, without a shower, and this time instead of on a floor in long island i spent my evening curled up on the back seat of our van in a wal mart parking lot in virgina beach because i play guitar.