Motocross, Michigan, Secondhand Serenade, and more

So after a couple people reminded me that I have a blog I decided I had better keep it updated every once and awhile haha. Currently im sitting in the Preston Idaho rodeo arena running sound for a Motocross show. Pretty interesting so far. I had to wake up at 5:30 am to get here only to show up and find they didnt want me till noon. So everything is finally up and running and now I just sit back and relax until the night is over. Then straight to the fair to pick everything up from there.

Here some picture's of them practicing.















In the past few week I took the long journey to Grand Ledge, Michigan. Right out of Lansing and right next to where Josh is serving his mission. I sold my sound and lighting company to a company located out there and believe it or not, its cheaper to drive it out in a big Penske truck then it is to have it shipped. So we rented a giant 26ft truck and started out on our journey. Along the way we saw many many many dead animals along the road including turtles. I learned many states are butt ugly and Nebraska only has one cool thing in it. Lincoln city. Awesome city and I really want to go back. Only thing I didnt like was the one way streets that I just happen to turn onto the WRONG way into oncoming traffic with a massive truck. Not as fun as you would think. Once we reached the wonderful state of Iowa with its massive mountains and no corn at all. (totally joking) we were greeted by a wonderful little blue car with flashing lights on top. Not only had we driving a commercial vehicle without a licence but we were missing about 11 other things including a log book, a physical (no idea why you need on of those..), special insurance, weight station papers, and a few other things. After about 1 1/2 hours of a nice chat with the police woman, she let us on our way to drive in fear of another pull over but luckily she gave us the right papers to show to any other cop if they happen to pull us over. Also every single weighstation we passed happen to be closed. How lucky can we get! On this trip I learned the biscuits with gravy is probably one of the greatest inventions every made. I had it every day. Sundays dinner at Dennys though almost made me throw up. Pretty nasty stuff and it was the first smoking restaurant I had been to in a long long time haha. We finally reached the Mississippi river and the sign to cross said"weight limit 8 tons" our truck was 23 tons. Then we saw a Uhaul truck cross and a train with about 50 cars underneath so we figured we were good.


Here was a prision right next to the Mississippi. Looked like an old castle.











Here is Joseph Smith grave in Nauvoo Illinois.


Here is the bullethole in the Carthage Jail that killed Hyrum Smith
And here is the window that Joseph fell out of.


All and all it was a way fun trip and Im really glad that I got to go on it.

This picture about sums up the trip: Secondhand Serenade Concert

I got the call about this show as I was boarding the plane home from Chicago. 6 am meet in logan to load the truck and be at Thanksgiving Point by 8:30 am. We brought the stage in around 9:00 am and finally got it all set up in little over an hour after which lights showed up followed by sound around 10:00. Then Secondhand showed up and we helped load their gear and get everything prepped for the show. Secondhand Serenade was the headliner with four other bands before them. I cant remember all of their names and I hadnt heard of them before.


Heres the crowd during the first band. Lots of people. I believe they said around 5000-6000 people at the end of the night.
Secondhand takes the stage!!

John (the bass player/keyboards for Secondhand Serenade and I. Both SLAYER fans!!!! ya!)

So all and all its been a pretty good past couple of weeks. I still need to upload all of the pictures from camping and bear lake. Thatll come probably tommorow. Now im just waiting for the motocross show to start so I can go back home haha. Till next time

The glad its not raining at the moment-
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