Jeremy Larson

On our way to Denver....

As I mentioned in the previous blog, we were supposed to drive through Salt Lake City on our way to Denver, but there were a snow storm and several roads were closed.  We decided to head back south and drive through Arizona instead, but there was a dust storm in Flagstaff and the highway was closed.  So we stayed the night there, and left this morning for Santa Fe.

 

We drove a few hours and were slowed to a stop about halfway there.  We heard on the radio that the traffic was backed up all the way across state lines.  The culprit: road construction (or in my humble opinion, horrible planning on the part of the DOT).

We spent hours looking for alternate routes and ended up blazing through dirt roads in the desert keep in mind, we are driving a van and pulling a large trailer).  We decided to turn around when we got here:

It kind of looks pretty in the picture, but I think we were very close to death.  We've had a few days off and I'm looking forward to playing in Denver tomorrow night.  Hope to see some of you there.  Thanks for reading! Jeremy

       

Stranded

I'm being lazy and giving you an update via the Sleeping At Last blog:
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As Ryan mentioned he flew home early this morning to be part of the Q Gathering. The rest of us are making our way to Denver for our show on Friday. We had heard that there was a chance of snow on our planned route so seeing as it was a route that included a fair share of mountains we decided we didn't want to risk it. So instead we opted to head south and around the snow. Our first obstacle was going through a "blast" zone. I'm not sure what they were blasting but it delayed our progress about an hour. Then we headed over the hover dam, which we have never done before. It's a pretty amazing site. Before heading over we had to pull over and open up our trailer for an inspection. Pretty tight security. The officer was very impressed with the locks on our trailer. Then the next obstacle proved to be too much. High winds and a dust storm closed down the highway we were traveling on. We had to stop about three hours short of our destination. We can only hope the highway will be open in the morning. I wish I could post some pictures from the day but my samsung flip phone doesn't blog very well.
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Thanks for reading,
Jeremy

Travel Photos

Here are a few photos of the Hoover Dam and along our path through Nevada and Arizona. We are headed to Colorado next and will be playing at the Walnut Room. I'm looking forward to it. 

Thanks for reading, Jeremy          

Las Vegas

Today we had a day off in Las Vegas. Here are a few photos. I'll blog more (words) tomorrow. Jeremy  

Thankful

 

   

I'm pretty excited about tonights show in LA; we're playing Hotel Cafe. At the moment, I'm sitting in

Downtown Disney just killing some time. I've been walking around thinking about how unique my touring

situation is. I haven't toured much before, so I don't have a whole lot to compare this to, but I know I'm

with a very special group of people. First of all, it's extremely rare that a headlining band would ever tell

the opener, "hey, don't waste you money on driving you own car for this tour, hop in with us!". I don't

think that people are normally that courtious. Secondly, it's just about impossble to find four people that

after two weeks together, still want to hang out on their day off. There's a genuine sense of community

with this group, and I like who I am much more when I'm with Ryan, Dan, Aaron, and Kim. It makes the

music feel genuine on stage, an that is also rare when you are doing shows every night. I guess in all of

this rambling, I mainly just wanted to give a big huge thank you once again to Sleeping At Last for taking

me out with them again. I'm having a blast and meeting a ton of new people every night. I will always

look back at this time as one of the most important times in my career.

Thanks for reading, and a special thank you to all of my blog readers that have been coming out to the

shows every night! See you soon,

Jeremy

Disney!

If you know the guys from Sleeping At Last, you know that they love Disney. We're going to Disneyland today, on our day off! Follow me on twitter and i'll post lots of photos today. 

Here's a Conan ice cream cone photo that Elsie sent me this morning. Does anyone know who made this? It's amazing. 

Thanks for reading, Jeremy  

Arizona: my day in pictures

 Jeremy             

Albuquerque show pics & some cute kids.

Yesterday we saw some kids playing steel drums at the mall. It was unexpected, but really cool. They were so cute! Here's a video I took of them with my phone...

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There was also some really cool upside art on the ceilings. 

And here are the guys from Sleeping At Last at the Lobo theater. It was a great venue with really kind people! We had a great time. 

Thanks for reading, Jeremy    

Quick Post

I only have time to do a brief post because we are all going to see Oceans today!

I should also mention that Sleeping At Last just launched a new blog, you can read it here.

Yesterday we had the day off, and went to the mall.  It was fairly uneventful, but they did have a Boba Tea shop.  It always reminds me of Elsie, so I had to go in.

Tonight we are playing at the Lobo Theater here in Albuquerque.  If you're in the area, please come out and see us! 

Thanks for reading!

Jeremy

New Mexico

View from the van.