A Lull – 2nd ROAD BLOG from their “Winter Tour 2012” With Deleted Scenes

A Lull is on their 2012 Winter Tour with Deleted Scenes. While on tour they will be writing periodic blogs for us. The second one can be read after the break.

Couer d’ Alene to Portland was some serious weather shit. We hit wind, ice, snow, sleet, rain, ice, wind, snow and roads closed. We had to stop for a new air filter and along the way, people asked us why we were crazy enough to keep going. Good question. Back into the van, back into the frozen tundra wasteland. We drove all day and into the night and got into Portland super late (the show had already started). We played pretty bad and that was Portland.

Portland to Seattle was all rain and slush. But, it was a nice break from the previous week of the shittiest weather in the history of the planet. In Seattle, DeWitte got a Tom Waits tattoo and Ravenna Woods packed the place. Great night.

Spokane would have backtracked in the direction that we had come from, back into the shit. So, we decided to save ourselves some anxiety and cancel the show. Instead, we would head to San Francisco and try to get out of the weather that had been following us around the country. It rained all the way to southern Oregon, but at that point, we were thankful for just rain, as long as it wasn’t frozen.

The last mountain pass before San Francisco was closed, obviously. They told us we needed chains on the tires to pass when it opened. Having been fed up with that kind of thing, we backtracked a little and took US 199 through some national forests and into California, where we got on US 101 and headed south. It rained the whole way and we took the curves and most of the road at about 30 mph, but it was better than more snow on top of more mountains.

Finally, in San Francisco we could relax a little bit after a minor hiccup involving a super steep, curvy, narrow San Francisco street with cars parked on both sides in the rain. But, the crisis was averted. The show in San Francisco was something of a reunion with a bunch of faces that we hadn’t seen in a very long time. It was good to catch up. Santa Barbara next, then LA and San Diego. Then we slowly start to head back east. Fuckin’ tour, man.