Our drive to Kansas was marred slightly by a renegade Missouri cop who thought that kids who are driving in a van in the summer must obviously be carrying drugs. He couldn't have chosen a worse target, seeing as how we are probably one of the only bands touring without even cigarettes in our van. We barely got off, I think he thinks I'm a meth head.
Our first stop in Kansas City was Arthur Bryant's BBQ. Wow. This place was a serious BBQ place. We stuck out like a sore thumb, being the only people under 200 lbs and sharing an enormous chicken "sandwich". Next we went to the venue, The Foundation, a warehouse like spare located in the West Bottom, an amazing old industrial part of the town. Huge, old wooden floors and a 15 by 15 ft freight elevator led us upstairs. We played with an awesome band Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, and the guys in the band were the nicest and funniest people we've met. We stayed with them in Lawrence before heading to Denver the next morning.
The Kansas country was amazingly terrible. There were beautiful and enormous fields alongside the highway which was spotted with homemade pro-life signs. The only towns along the highway were small nightmares of every chain store/restuarant/motel you could think of. We finally got into Colorado and saw an amazing sunset before arriving at Rhinoceropolis. The show was alot of fun, and our friends in Capillary Action showed up and played as well. The Rhino people are awesome, and gave us ingredients to make pizza at 3am. The next day we went to Boulder and played a radio show at KVCU 1190. It went really well and we played quite loud. CD's were falling off the shelves in the room as we played. Afterwards we met a friend who took us on a short hike up a mountain above the city in the sunset.
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