Just crossed the Idaho / Oregon border

(Shoshone Waterfalls in Twin Falls, ID)

The show in Twin Falls, ID ended up getting canceled but we were able to hop onto a show in Boise.

TGA played at a "venue" called Myrtle Morgue. I say the word "venue" very loosely in this context because it was actually a basement in some dudes garage.

Now, the reason this basement got the name Myrtle Morgue was for 2 reasons.
1) The house was on Myrtle street
(go figure that one right?)
2) someone was murdered in the basement sometime last year.

The basement was SUPER tiny as well.
I wanna say no bigger then the size of our van if it had enough room for you to stand up in.

I watched TGA play a couple of songs, then I gave my camera to Joe and he shot a couple of pictures + a video or whirlwind, which will be uploaded to youtube whenever we get to some wifi.

SNOW!!!!

Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!!!

As we continued through the sceneic route towards Wyoming, we ended up
reaching the summit of the mountain.
(10,000 somethin feet, close to 2 miles above sea level)

And what we saw left these 7 Texans speechless.

It was like we had completely skipped the fact that it was June and
entered a land where it was always winter.

Snow was about 2 feet high in some places and it felt soo good to
finally be out of that 100 degree TX weather.

We all had a huge snowball fight that lasted about 5 mins, after we
were freezing our butts off and realized that we were not packed at
all to handle the cold of that magnitude.

I took video for about half the fight and couldn't help myself to join
in on the fun after Eric tried to peg me with a snowball.

I'll upload the video to youtube which I'm sure will be all over TGA's
myspace.

Driving through north Colorado

(Colorado scenic view)

On our way out of Colorado, we were filling up at a gas station and were stopped by a local who asked us if we were a band.

We said yes and asked her if there was anything interesting to see in the area. (national parks, etc.)

She told us that there was a scenic view through the mountains on the way to out to Wyoming.

We jotted down her directions and parted ways.

I can not begin to tell you how beautiful driving through the mountains was.

Seriously, all of us wanted to stop every couple of mins to check out the river or the rock formations.

I took a lot of pictures with my other cameras, will upload those to the web gallery whenever I upload them to the mbp.

Currently Jamming: Evaline - Postpartum Modesty

We built a loft!!!

(me in the loft)

So by arranging the gear properly, we managed to create a makeshift loft.

Its not comfortable but we laid down all of our pillows and blankets to make it bearable.

Show in Dallas last night

We were in Dallas last night, now we're staying in Denton with the Netjeks.

One really cool thing about the show was we found out that Hit The Lights & I Am The Avalanche were playing right around the corner from the venue we were at.
A couple of people from the show kept walking back and forth to watch both shows.
Above is a photo from HTL's set.

Driving to Oklahoma City today, then the 22hr drive to Twin Falls Idaho.

oof

Sitting in San Antonio

We're here in San Antonio, sitting in front of the venue, waiting for it to open up.
(above shows Fabian playing the acoustic)

I uploaded some pictures to the tour section of my .mac web gallery.
The photos are outta order but I'll fix that whenever I get to some wifi.

http://gallery.mac.com/juanaramirez

First day of tour

The Golden Age tour has begun!
(www.myspace.com/thegoldenage)

We left corpus today, heading for Laredo, TX right now.

Things seem to be promising for this tour, definitely can not wait til
we get outta TX though.

We checked out the weather in all of the cities that we will be
visiting and everywhere else but TX and Phoenix is gonna be below 70
degrees.

I know I promised that I would post pics from the wedding that me and
Nutter shot but, I haven't gone through them thoroughly yet.
My bad.

However, here is what our van looks like with all of our crap stacked
atop of each other.

Will update later.

Juan Ramirez
www.jramirezphotography.com