we are driving down to Florida by way of the 1500 year old Angel Oak tree in South Carolina. Staying in Florida drinking drinks with fruit and umbrellas in them for a couple days then driving back home.
yeah!
The last trip we took was a week in california in july 2005.

leaving today, or driving already?

Punch old, retired jews when you are down there.

Try to find a basement show to shoot! hehe

October 11th you'll be taking a little non-show trip too.

TO GAY SEX TOWN, MA!

PS Send me your mailing address or I snatch your prickolini

we are leaving in a week. I don't want to be at work. I just want to head down to the beach with carina in a bathing suit.

shave or gtfo

oh noes! me gots zour creme all overs me mustaceherz!

FREE MUSTACHE RIDES, GIDDITY UP L@LZ AND SHAMWOW SNUGGIES

MOTHERFUCKIN CHOPWOW

Why driving? Very far, no fly?

I much as I just wanna fly. I don't fly.

ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!!!!!

you'll be so much happier driving, i've always wanted to make the driving journey to Florida.

I drove it once in 1996.

and W3, if you don't get my reference, you are the fail.

I know a guy who drove from Quincy to Key West, and in an effort to save money, bought 2 pounds of ham to eat for sandwiches on the road. Needless to say, unrefrigerated for a 1,600 mile trip, that ham wasn't very good for very long.

hahahahahahaha what a douche. what is this "cooler" you speak of?

your reference fails

<< first non-concert related trip in almost 4 years!>

wow..you really suck....thanks for putting it into perspective..

seriously..if that were true...i would have left you long ago...
you are simply not counting trips less than a week in length..

I stayed at a friend's house outside of Charleston, SC over the summer for like a week. The drives down and back wear on you but it's worth it for the 70 degree ocean water.

He lived like 10 or 15 minutes from Angel Oak which was probably one of the more ridiculous things I've ever seen. I could build the sickest tree fort there.

yeah, those "branches" are the size of some of the biggest trees you'll see around here.

That should be an album cover.

carina: I'm taking a vacation of more than just a weekend.

'bout damn time man!

yes, I know.

Very cool. Might as well detour into Mexico for the pony show.

ic, you want to kidnap me.

Hmm... not a bad idea... you would be subjected to 24-7 old school death metal. Might be healthy.

There is a billboard on 95 south in South Carolina that says "Victory is great but honor is even greater, come with us to celebrate your proud southern heritage" or something to that effect. It's one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

I don't know I always thought the stripclub signs were the best part of the carolinas what the fuck is again Lamp Cafe Risque or some shit like that.

it was so weak, they made us choose between a meal or 2 drinks

I've seen the billboards for that place, never stopped in though.

The 95 corridor is like another planet compared to the rest of the south. It's a barren wasteland that doesn't go through anything. You see a lot more cool shit on 85 or 20 or 40 than on 95.

Florida is the gayest state in the US. enjoy your new retirement buddies.

yeah when ever I've travelled down there I've only taken 95, I forget the HW that you can take that's the backroad from VAbeach area to NC but that had some cool on it.

But that was always my friend driving so I usually just slept.

24hrs before we leave!

Haven't been to Florida in ages. Saw Disgorge (Cali) and Kvlt of Azazel down there years ago. Probably the greatest memory I have of Florida.

Carina went last year with her family. I haven't been since 1996.

Aaron, I promise to try not to break the board again while you're gone. Double pinky swear.

Whereabouts in Fl? If I was to go back down there now, I'd opt to just chill out in Miami.

well... the hotel has wifi and I will have my laptop with me. I was also going to see about staying online while driving so I can get google maps on the drive.

we are going to melbourne beach. I can't believe the deal that carina got on the hotel.
http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/MLBBODT/index.do
it's basically the same price as my hotel at MDF.

So basically what you're saying is go ahead and break stuff?

according to the metal archives, there are two power metalish bands that originated in Melbourne hehe.

DYA: you have broken more things then I would like to admit.

Hahahaha... I really don't mean to, I just have this natural knack for straining software past its built-in limitations. I hope you at least got to iron out a few bugs from my barging around your intertubes.

...or just punch ALL Jews.

5 hrs

you should check out the beaches down the street from angel oak(you take a right off of a main road to get to angel oak, if you follow said main road straight it takes you to the beaches).

The sand and water there is amazing and you get to see a large illustrate signas you're walking towards the beach that informs you of all the animals in the water that can kill you. It's pretty awesome haha.

When I went there was a hurricane headed towards us so there was this ridiculous riptide that easily took my friends and i 100 ft. from where we were if your feet left the ground. good cardiovascular exercise.

Also, look for banana spiders. Freaking huge and weird lookin.

carina is waiting for me outside.

Have a great time! I'll say hi to Destruction for you!

Make sure and stop at Wally World.

Finally Niccolai, you and I meet in the middle.

Orlando is one of the worst places I've ever been to.

I drove up from Atl to DC on Sunday. Took 14 hours in rain and snow, but still made it to Jaxx in time for Satyricon!

I'll be in Ft. Lauderdale Thursday through Saturday!! Carina, I'm gonna yell your name and see if you hear me.

Drive safely!

maryland ahoy!

I dig Maryland.

virginia.

RICHMOND STINKS WORSE THAN BELIN NH.

Did you pass the cigarette factory yet?

I've heard something about a bad waste treatment plant in Richmond, maybe I've just been there enough that I'm used to it.

8:! NC! hello lamp!

Hello, you're in a part of NC I've never been in before I think.

Not until you cross 40 will you be in ground I recognize.

we just switch finally in kenly exit 106 on 95. im napping now.

That's in Johnston County, right?

I used to go to Clayton sometimes for work, it's a bit west of where you are though. That was as far east as we'd go.

idkv about the county.

we're at some 24 hr grocery store called harris teeter.

I fell asleep while carina drove. woke up and all the trees, etc... are different. awesome. still freezing outside.

if I see an alligator, im going to punch that bitch.

The rev punching alligators like bitches?

It's more likely than you think.

more like running and squeeling like a bitch. eep!

SC drivers are worse than mass drivers. wow...

we are in morning traffic and I have only seen one black person drive by.

also, why does every place down here smell wicked bad?

Those are all over the place in these parts, that's a damn good grocery store. I keep hearing they have good subs too, but I've never had one. I had some pizza from there once and it was great.

that shit was pricey in VB, I never shopped there only Food Lion aka the motherfuckin ghetto kitty.

I have a VIC card for my keychain (how I got it I don't remember) so it's not as bad, but I wouldn't do a full grocery shopping there. For a while I was just going to Wal-Mart but I'd prefer to go to Food Lion now really.

I hated shopping @ Wal*Mart for food, that places sucks.

Yeah well, I didn't do it because I wanted to, I did it because I was trying to save money by any means possible.

oh no I understand that, I'm just saying it's one of the worst experiences I've had. horrible horrible set up and the worst humans alive in there.

stop by charlotte so i can wag my dick at you

Do you live in Charlotte?

You are below the Mason Dixon line. Black people are not allowed to own cars.

I was at a Bojangles drive-thru the other night and in front of me, there were a couple black guys who must have ordered a week's worth of fried chicken and a half-gallon of their shitty iced tea.

I have never seen so manhy vultures in my life. amazing. we are driving through some swamp road now. I want to steal spanish moss. carina wants to steal a palm.
angel oak was amazing. tons of pictures, but then I sneezed on it. hope it doesn't die.

Fast forward 3 weeks -- NEWSFLASH -- Coastal NH is overrun by invasive species of spanish moss palms.

the frjuit I got at that pricey groc ruled. huge apples.

so far the south smells, but there are 168523652852 of radio stations. unfortunately 99% of them are jesus radio.

and where the hell do they get coffee? mcdonalds? there aren't any coffee places.

a car from maine just drove by us.

IN SOVIET NORTH CAROLINA, TEA SWEETENS YOU

ok... the exit we got off at is a race track... super nice people but there is a stinky cancerous haze of burning rubber over the town.

sounds like any exit on 95 in the south

florida

Coffee isn't a big thing in the south. People here are big on iced tea and breakfast biscuits. That said, I do see the occasional Dunkin' Donuts... but they are very widespread.

this place is awesome. we just walked the beach, swam, and are now having happy hour drinks watching the sun set over palms.

there are plenty o dnd in florida. florida is part of new york moved to a tropical climate.

fucking happy hour on the beach!

jealous.
/end

I'm going to have to tell shows to fuck themselves some weekends and do this more often. this rules.

im already trying to get her to plan something else..

Back'd. (JUST NOT WHEN WE'RE PLAYING, LOL.)

hopping into the pool again.

swam for a bit and then hot tubed. about to walk on the beach. sick life.

playing with ferrel cats. google maps ruined the beach walk cause I looked ahead and it was the same crap for 10 miles in either direction. since I can't really shellsearch in the dark, I went back.

haha, this thread is kinda like a twitter for the trip!

GODDAMMIT SKYNET

funny because i have been telling him we should do this for a while...he finally agrees and now wants to do it again..hey...no complaints here...tropical island here we come...

you can look at my fb page too cause I'm uploading pictures from my camera phone when I think of it.
this is out the back balcony of the room

it's a lot sunnier than it looks.
we also got burritos at a place called "DA KINE DIEGO'S" and I saw a bunch of wrench in the works stickers on the wall there.

does that mean whales vagina

http://www.charlestonwiki.org/Pluff_mud

drinking rum+juice out of a buckket at 3? ok!

OH GOD REV I THINK I BROKE THE SITE THERE'S PICTURES OF DICKS EVERYWHERE AND EVERY LINK GOES TO THE BSR BOARD

that sounds like a feature.

there are a bunch of college kids drunk and the pool and getting kicked out for puking somewhere. awesome. on of them is acting exactly like the drunk chick on family guy.

I never looked at that tree up above too carefully but I really want to go to Charleston now.

im going to try to post a bunch of photos from the angel oak tonight. will wait til carina falls asleep.

all the old people are laughing the drunk chick singing along to highschool music. it's like that south park episode.

the angel oak

we are now shopping at Ron Jon surf shop. I don't surf, no one I know surfs, no one carina knows surfs, and for some reason carina's got a hand full of gifts for people. I didn't drink enough rum for this.

what makes shopping bareable is the journey on the radio. long like falsetto vocals. bro.

that place is open 24/7!

I do live in Charlotte, yes.

You guys would get along just great. *snort*

I'm actually going down to Charlotte for a show tomorrow night, I didn't think anyone else here lived in NC.

hooker ran from his troubled past to blog about painting in charlotte.

visiting kennedy space center today. I really want to go to mars now. I saw a presentation with girls over acting and doing kicks in the air. I'm pretty sure that im now skilled enough to head to mars.

staked out a spot by the pool at 7am. since then I've just been cycling photographs, pool, hot tub, beach, photographs, bathroom, pool, hot tub, beach, photographs. about to mix some real film and rum into the rotation.

sounds like a good vacation so far

you're out of town when we finally get a weekend of good weather

just like how you don't see clark kent and superman together.. hmmmm.

we will be welcomed back with snow and 30's.

You need to visit the gulf side of southern Fl. The waters are far superior to those of the choppy, murky Atlantic.
Go to Sanibel/Captiva.

I think that is where we are coming back to.

my moms lives in that area, not my sister though. sorry aaron.

if your sister lived here, I would texted her and ask her to send me high school photos of blue.

drinking rum and then falling asleep in the sun is a win. waking up in the sun with no idea where you are and worried that you have a boner when there are kids at the pool is a fail.

well she does live in florida, im just not going to tell you where. you can google it or something internetsy like that.

damn it! I need my fill of frosted hair blue pictures.

I am getting completely baked in the sun right now. wtf am I thinking? I've grease myself up like a pig with spf 50.

the sun is finally off me?

here comes the sun do do do do.

carina made us move back into the sun again. I was nicely asleep in the shade too.

That's cool, man, I'm getting completely baked in my closet.

/cue Macintosh jokes (the closet... come out of... get it)

this is the worst part of the trip... carina made me go into a terrible store s she could shop.

packing up to leave now. losing the hour sucked it up big time. I wish that DST was next week cause I would be able to hit the bach again before leaving.

DST is HIV+

saw 2 turtles humping, I shit you not.

pics?

will post later. 18 hrs to my car.

over 45 minutes added to trip due to motorcycle accident sound of savanah

walking in downtown savannah

I like that you've taken us all on your romantic vacation.

I'll be sure to "bring" you guys along for my family reunion in June.

If we're lucky, we are surrogate children.

just crossed over south of the border. 13:40 left.
next time, I will recount tales of getting diarrhae when the plane takes off.

swapped a few miles into virginia. after singing happy birthday to carina.

going to sleep now.

back in the saddle again.

pounded 2 monster drinks and now im getting a quad shot starbucks.

lol

nyc traffic can suck my balls.

that's gotta be some good stop and go or just stopped traffic.

nyc traffic added like 1 1/2 to the trip, at least. probably more like 2. they need to make a CT thru-way that skips NYC.

The weather is shitty, just in time for you to come home.

it is gross here in gay marriageland. saw 2 spinouts into the ditch.

there are ways to circumvent NYC by going through CT.... or did you need to stop in NYC?

live free or die.

I wish!

But was there Open Defecation?