The 20,000 Butterflies Tour: Highlights Pt. 1

Ian and Alex call this the 20,000 butterflies tour because we decided that if we had a choice to play to a room of 15 people or of 20,000 butterflies, we'd choose the butterflies. We're rolling home now in the midst of a 3-day drive from Big Sky Montana to Lambertvile, NJ, with stops in Fargo and Chicago. The scenery in North Dakota yesterday was particularly stunning. Craig couldn't find it in him to leave, so he bought a plane ticket and we left him in a Dollar Tree parking lot in Bozeman.

It's been hard to keep regular updates, so I'm going to break it down a little bit... The earliest, Mid-West part of our tour peaked in a large equipment shed at Camp Euforia, amidst the cornfields of Lone-Tree, Iowa. We played an awesome show and then celebrated the completion of that leg of the tour by staying up all night, dancing to We Funk, a 17-piece Parliment cover band from Iowa City who marathoned all the way to sunrise.














Dave met a Banana...


















And when we weren't dancing we were exploring the cornfields... a giant endless sea of tunnels and centipedes, roots, growth and monoculture. The fuel of America.

































In Chicago we got to play with Maria's family's new puppy Rosie!!
















In Saint Louis we played for the 3rd time of the tour with the awesome Iowa City reggae band Public Property and Darby got in touch with his inner-Michael Jackson.


















And then we headed out over the great plains to Colorado, where the story continues...