Dresden

The long haul to Dresden. These are the times on tour you wish you could just skip over. In Europe, however, the drives aren't nearly as bad as in the US. They're more around 6-8 hours, as opposed to some drives that can be around 12+ hours through the Midwest. 

I did get my hot doggy before we left Poland. It's a kielbasa hotdog that they fill with your choice of condiment, and then 'insert' the hotdog into the bread sheath. It's actually quite delicious, and something I've only ever found in Poland. 

We've managed over the past few shows to clear out a lot of merch, so we freed up most of the extra space we were taking up in the back seat. So Joel was able to fall asleep behind Matt's guitar. 

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Another hot one, but at least there was a ventilation pipe over the stage sending some air movement, so not as soaked as Warsaw. The food at the venue was good. It was a choice of vegan pasta with zucchini, or vegan pasta with pesto and vegan meatballs. I went with the Pedro and meatballs. It was quite good, despite having no actual meat in it. 

For a Monday night, the turnout wasn't horrible. The people that were there were pretty stoked to see us though.

We stayed in s hostel-type place. I say hostel 'type' because it seems like it's not an actual hostel, just a place the promoter has to put hands up for the night, though, I may be wrong. Either way, there's wifi, a shower, and some comfy beds. There is s washing machine, and was all excited to do laundry till we realized A) we had no laundry soap, and B) there are no dryers in Europe, and we'd have to have everything air dried by tomorrow morning. 

Off to Essen today. Someone messaged us and said they were a vegan chocolatier and is going to make us a cake and bring it to the show. I'm more excited for cake than the show today, and we don't have to drive for too long, so we can lounge a bit today.