July 25th, 2010 by cgerber

I feel weird. Got to bed this morning at 6AM after playing Casper Wyoming. Though a small town, they have a lot of heart.
Once back on the road it wasn’t pretty. I’m still saddened by what happened. I ran over a raccoon. I came over this hill in the middle of the night and there was a family of raccoons feasting on the dead rotting carcass of another dead animal. I did my best to avoid all of them without flipping the vehicle, but one ran into my lane and I nailed it. 2012 and our keyboard playing tried to convince me I hit the father, the baby and Mom lived, and he was abusive and mean anyway… but it didn’t help. It was awful…. probably taking it so hard because my childhood stuffed animal was a raccoon I named Roberto. So sad.
Well the tour has been going great thus far! Best part is all the cool people we meet along the way. Most annoying part is all the friends who keep calling because they see we’re on tour lol. Not sure why friends see the need to “catch up” whenever I’m on the road or in the studio. It’s nice though. I have some pretty amazing friends.
My mouth tastes nasty. Last thing I had to drink was a rock star, so I need to find some water. Next few days we have off…ish, so that will be fun or something.
Chad Gerber