things that look like a turd...That You Can Eat Pt. 2 & 3

well here it is folks another great segment in things that look like a turd, that you can eat. its just fun to say. try it. go ahead...you know you wanna.......while in edmonton our great old friend james "sully" sullivan treated us to an awesome Chinese buffet. yes, jim, the dumplings were delicious. the ginger chicken was also good. especially for something that looked like a turd.....had to try it and of course i HAD to get a shot of it for the blog!

part 3 is one of the funniest food items around....the ole walnut crunch from timmy ho's. i can hardly keep from lauging when i'm in line there just cause they look so nasty. i saw this one in ontario and i couldnt resist. had to do it.....

well there's some stuff for you to chew on...er....ah, i mean ...i hope you enjoyed this segment. there's always more to come so make sure you check back often!

MB

shaved pussies

well a while back i promised to put up some video of our pal sean davis's kitties. this was the manager of the bar in medicine hat and we crashed at his place after the gig and hung out with these silly looking cats.....

.....what did you think i meant?

MB

hello stranger

hi minions, 

well the ole internet has been scarce. because of this i have fallen waaay behind so i'm gonna try and post a shit load of stuff to get a lil caught up. we are holed up in a motel in parksville, on vancouver island. it is awesome here.  last night we played the rod & gun pub. very interesting.we spent our day off  checking out the town and hanging on the beach. it is pretty beautiful here. i have some pics and vids i'll post from van island but first we need to catch up...the pics above are form the trip from banff to kelowna including........here's the vid's etc....

BANFF:

driving into banff from calgary the rocky mountains tease you immediately...for a good solid hour you get a lil closer and a lil closer. the excitment of feeling that fresh mountain air go into your lungs is so much that i find myself hanging my head right out the window taking it all in. we arrived in banff and loaded our gear in the rose n crown for two nights. our coach the fearless barry morrison was also with us for two more nights. the shows were not so well attended but we had fun and rock the joint anyway. we spent wednesday hanging around town and went to a place for breaky/lunch that used to be a swingers club in the 70's. there were phones at each table and the placemat was a map with all the tables numbered so you could call which ever table turned you on....our phone didnt work. the food was not so good and grossly over priced. although banff is a great little town as far as scenery goes it just plain sucks for glitzy exspensive tourist trape-ness. i would take canmore first anyday. anyway we had a nice dinner at the band house on wednesday. a tai peanut thingy whipped up by master cheffy K Gans. Thursday morning we hit the road for an all day drive to kelowna........check the vid's!

MB

if you have never driven from banff to kelowna i would suggest that you do so soon. it is absolutely stunning. from giant snowcapped rocky mountains to the most lush green valley's to the bluest lakes you have ever seen. Ghost towns, Goat walks, beaver valley's and more exciting things than you can shake a stick at. this drive was more on the quiet side in the old van. each one of us looking out the windows at the breathtaking scenery trying to wrap our heads around how or why we were even there. when your cell reception abruptly dies just past revelstoke it is clear that you are deep in the heart of western canada. this is probably my favorite part of the canadian highways that i have seen. we stopped at lake louise to tourist it up a bit. what a gorgeous place. i got some great shots from there, and banff,  that are posted at the top of this entry.....while roaming the hotel we encountered a harpist and as we walked into the room she kindly made her way into a beautiful rendition of stairway.....here's a taste....

we also stopped for a pee at this place that had really friendly critters called ground squirrels that shawn decided to play with. here they are

 

the green valley of the shushwap and lake country is just ridiculous. i forgot how much i love and miss the oakanagan. the lake is awesome and we spent all week enjoying its beauty. Karls parents place overlooks. we spent many hours on the deck enjoying coffee, dinner, rehersal, beers, bbq and all round good times. Big thanks to Karls parents for treating us with great food and fun stories. this couple certainly goes into the books for awesome people. the first video is just a glimpse of what you see from the deck. the second is a "hat party" we had the first night at casa gans. enjoy.

we had a time at our gig in enderby. the last time we played here we met a fellow named robert planet AKA the one armed man. we had our fingers crossed that he would be there so we could get a video clip of him. to try and describe how crazy he was would be impossible. i wanted to record it so  people would know what true unbridled whacky-ness was.  alas, it would not be so. he never showed. to add to our confusion, when we asked our host lorne about rober planet, lorne didnt even remember him being there last time...perplexing for sure. we culdnt figure it out as not a day has gone by since then that i dont think of the one armed man.  i'd post some video from this night but its a little lethbridge-y.......as in we were to "funny" to post the evidence....maybe we'll put it in the DVD.....

osoyoos was pretty typical. no one there, we rocked and then went home. sunday we hung out at karls folks place then went in to kelowna to the blue gator jam night. it was a little strange as our style of blues sticks out like a sore thumb here. we got up and did a couple tunes and it was fun but a little weird. afterwards we went over to roses pub in the fancy hotel on the lake. they were having a rock jam night so we got up and pretty much barfed our tunes all over them. the kids seemed to like it and we had a blast and felt good about it all. i guess i should say that this was a strange night for me as i sort of cut my teeth in kelowna at these bars. i used to play bass in a band from the okanagan called dog skin suit and we played the original gator a lot. i used to go to roses every week for their jam and wait to get up and do my thing. i learned a lot by playing these places years ago and it was neat to see some kids doing the same thing now. very nostalgic night all in all.

tuesday we killed the after noon by having a rehearsal for our acoustic show outside on karls parents deck. this was all too surreal. the poplar trees were in bloom and it was quite windy so on the right moment it kinda looked like it was snowing on a super sunny day. its moments like this that make us shake our head and realize how fortunate we are to be able to do what we do. more than once we all looked at each other and just shook our heads thinking how awesome life is. again a LARGE thanks to karls family for being so kind. we love you guys. here's a little video to try and give you an idea how awesome this day off was......

so that catches us up a bit.....tomorrow i'll try and get to work on the vancouver island trip. its only been a day and a half but its wicked! this is a wonderful place on earth people. it you haven't been you need to. till then.

MB

crazy people

we meet a lot of crazy mofo's out here on the road. some of them good crazy, some of them bad crazy. we met this fellow names chris ryman from nelson, at our enderby show. they were paddling the nearby river and pulled out by coincidence at the venue. check this crazy bastard out right here.

http://kayakhotdogs.blogspot.com/2009/05/lucky-13.html

click the lucky 13 video and enjoy. obviously nuts.

great to make new friends.

MB

a breakfast worth waiting for

hi everyone

so last friday night we played in enderby at lorenzo's cafe. this is a super funky place that is in a huge old house. the floors are hardwood from an old bowling ally. all the railing posts are in fact bowling pins and there is one functional lane out back. we hard a tiny crowd but a very large time. the last time we played here we met Robert Planet AKA the one armed man. good crazy. anyway no sightings of ole RP this time but we had fn anyway. the point of this story is that last fall when here we had breaky the next morning at a place called lulu's. we had the best eggs benny we had on the whole tour. needless to say we were stoked for the return. at lorenzo's lauren the waitress said we should go to hungry jacks, which is a cheap diner sorta spot were all the locals go. we hummed and hawed a lot and became concerned when tracy, another local, told us that they dont even serve benny at lulu's any more.   when we were comparing notes with locals to see where we should go another fella did say though, that lulu's was "a fancier place where they come right to your table and serve you"! after much thought we decided we'd try lulu's anyway. upon arrival i asked if they still had canada's best eggs benny and she said no. we panicked. i started to throw a flail on the floor fit. hitting emergency mode we started to eggsplain (haha) that we had it last time and it was the best ect, etc AND that i had, in fact, abstained from EB's all across canada cause i wanted the BEST! once she realized we weren't staying without EB's she said she'd "ask the kitchen". having been in the sevice industry for ten years i expected the kitchen to say up yers. HOWEVER....we were delighted that they would in fact whip us up a homemade eggs benny. let me tell ya, it was awesome awesome awesome. once again we got our way and all was good in the world. if you are in exotic dowtown enderby, make sure you stop by lulu's. tell 'em the bastards sent ya!

MB

i found my hat, everything is broken.

hey all,

we are in sunny kelowna right now and it is beautiful. i just dropped my guitar off at the local store to get fixed. seems her  jack aint quite right. i think she ran into a door or something. shilo our tech guy there said he can have her right by tomorrow. wicked! soon we are off to future shop to try and get our camera fixed as i may have had a mishap with it involving the floor.

i forgot to mention that in calgary i found my long lost hat!!!! when we played cowtown last fall i left my hat at sailor chucky's house AKA the vista compound. well i was pretty stoked to walk in and find it hanging roughly right where i left it last november! 

tonight we hit up lorenzo's cafe. last time we played here we met Robert Planet, the one armed man. 100% pure crazy. we are excited at the thought that he may be there again! stay tuned. we'll see if we can get some footage this time!

the new podcast is up too  www.cyberears.com/podcasts/podcast_5518.xml  check it out. this week features tunes from mike clark, carter chaplin, donnie dunphy and the sufferin bastards! check it!!!

MB

caught up....kinda sorta

Hey folks

well another week has zoomed by so now i'm trying to get caught up on the blog thang. a week without iternet sure throws a wrench in keeping up with the blogery and what nots.....now lets see.....

may 14th:

last thursday we had a nice drive to medicine hat where we were scheduled to play the ottoman lounge. the ottoman is a funky little night club that really works hard to bring original live music to medicine hat. the manager, sean davis, was an awesome fella and he looked right after us. sean is crazy enough to let the bands that tour through stay at his house and we were no exception. we had a great time performing to a a very small crowd. sold some merch and enjoyed meeting some new folks. specifically we enjoyed meeting andy, a hilarious english dude and chunk, a new zealander. chunk has been kind enough to offer to take us fishing and more importantly to the gun range next time we are through the hat! you can bet we'll take him up on that!!!

After the gig we went back to our gracious hosts place for a few after work pops. not only is sean a nice guy but he has two of the funniest looking kitties you ever did see. i think he said they were called fire tipped Himalayans.....these little cuties have lots a fur so sean likes to shave them for "their comfort". well let me tell ya, their comfort is our amusement cause they are hilarious looking. check the video and see for yourself.

friday am we went and grabbed our gear and stopped at a diner called nifty fifty's  for breaky on the way outta town. i can tell you for sure that this diner will NOT be getting a nod in breakfast of the week. with enough salt to clear the roads of new brunswick in february, it was gross. shawn had to send his bacon back as it wasnt even cooked. people, i gotta say...its bacon and eggs not rocket surgery......all you need to do is put a tiny bit of attention in and you can get good breaky, but noooooooooooooo. anyway, after breaky we hit the road for cowtown where good times were sure to happen.

MAY 15 & 16 cowtown:

 last tour we had some of the biggest fun staying with our old pal sailor chuck at the vista estates in calgary. never one to disappoint, chucky and mikey's juke joint delivered again, as did we.  we rolled in round supper time on friday and sat on the front lawn to enjoy a heini and the view of downtown calgary with the mountains right behind it. it was so nice to see the mountains once again. i always forget how truly spectacular they are. what a sight! after some catching up we went to the club to load in and soundcheck/eat. mikey's is a little roadhouse sorta place that reminds me a lot of bearly's in halifax. nice staff and patrons and they all act kinda like one big (drunken) family. the crowd that goes to mikey's is one of my favorites to play for. they cheer, dance and have a great time all round. oh yeah, they also love to buy cd's, which in our line of work sure helps out!  some of the vista estates crew came out to help warm up the party and by the end of the night everyone was in fine form and we went back to the compound to relax, have a beer and enjoy the entertainment of our host, sailor chucky!

Saturday AM i awoke to the smell of bacon. ever the consummate host ole chucky was already up and had breaky just about finished. guilty of being delicious, our breaky was just what the doctor ordered. after chilling for a bit we went to the alberta boot company to oogle the fancy boots. man. a fella could spend a lot of $$$ here. after some window shopping we hit a little restaurant's patio to enjoy a beer in the sun and check out the sights of downtown calgary. i gotta say. calgary has got lots to look at. indeed. after some string changing and a power nap we returned to mikey's juke joint for another night of fun. again the crowd was awesome! super appreciative and again bought lots of cd's! we also got to have mike clark hisself up to jam with us on a couple tunes. man. f you haven't heard mike play sax well then i guess you'd want to soon! he rips it up! 

chucky was the sole visitor from the vista estates on saturday and he certainly represented!!! my favorite part of the night was our last tune. traditionally we like to end with "call me gone" off of early grave. as i'm playing call me gone i can see at the end of the bar that sailor chucky is indeed being escorted out of the bar. chucky had such a good time that he had to have a rest period outside at the bartenders request. good time fo sho! all in all we felt like we had conquoered calgary and ad a great time playing at one of our fav spots in canada and hanging with some of our fav peeps! thanks to mikey's and the vista estate folks for looking after us!  

May 17th. 

longweekend sunday. we went to lethbridge where we had a time with old friends, barry morrison and matt price. we played the slice which is a great club with a kickin sound system and wicked pizza! the drive to lethbridge from calgary is spectacular. out the passenger window there is a solid line of rocky mountains reminding us that we were soon to be in the mountains. but first....the slice. the last time we played here it was to a very small crowd. this time the crowd was a little bigger and very receptive. i like the sound and the system here. get to full on rock out! after the show we went back to barry morrisons apartment to celebrate making it to the half way point of the tour. celebrate we did! man. it was silly. there were many laughs and many bevies enjoyed. i believe Karl and i had a sunrise perogie breakfast before falling fast asleep. when we awoke we started in on what would be another killer bastards breakfast. eggs and peppers, sausage, and corn beef hash made with an actual corned beef brisket. the real deal not that canned stuff! amazing.....oh yeah, how could i forget my favorite part....MIMOSAS!!!!! yes, its true, we live the decadent live....but hey we were celebrating after all right? half way through nine weeks and we were all still alive....we continued to celebrate for the rest of the day right into the evening too. we spent the evening at Average Joe's, eating, drinking, playing pool and my new favorite game, buck hunter! good fun. all in all a real grand time in lethbridge big thanks to barry morrison for hosting us! and for coming to banff for two more days of RAWK! atta boy barry.

May 18th:

the drive to banff is spectacular. the rocky mountains teasing you for a solid hour before you are right smack in the middle of them. sadly i spent the first two hours in the backseat sleeping off my lethbridge debauchery. i did manage to get up in the front seat for the final drive into banff. stunning. the mountains are so amazing. we hit the rose n crown where we scheduled to perform. after a load in and meal we checked into the band house and got cleaned up and went right back to the club for sound check. the gig was poorly attended but we sure rocked 'em anyway. today we found a bite to eat and then went in search of some internet to get caught up. of course since its banff there is nothing anywhere here for free so we are at starbucks begrudgingly paying for what should be free. tonight we are back in the ole rose n crown for another go at the ears of banff. i suspect we'll have a few more peeps tonight as word should have spread a little bit from our show last night. the podcast should be up tomorrow so stay tuned for that. always more to come!

well that about gets you up to speed. the pics here are from the medicine hat trip and then a few from cowtown. i have lots of good video that i will post later this week when i have a solid internet connection....hey starbucks yer internet sucks!

see y'all out there

MB

West Edmonton Mall

you cant go to edmonton and NOT hang at the mall. i mean come on. where else can you swim, ride roller coasters, have a nice meal, shoot guns and shop?.....so............. we did. it was exciting. we saw sea lions, pirate ships, freaky statues and our fav pub, Hudson's.  shawn bought bass strings. i bought finger picks and a postcard. we also went to the gun shop....real guns, not a boob store....when we come back in june we are gonna go and fire a few rounds!  oh yeah!!!!  

we also saw our good pal Pat Pelletier at chapters....he's been popping up and we may have to start a whole new segment called Pelletier sightings.....anyway......heres a pic or two.....

Super Dude tries a Dude Beer

well, well, well, let me tell ya...in edmonton (alberta) booze ain't cheap! what would be a $10 bottle of vino is $15 here....beer is also pricey. after much looking we found the almost cheapest beer in the store. $20.99 for a 15 pack. AND it was called DUDE beer. had to try it. here is a lil video and photo from our sampling. Big Thanks to Brockway Biggs (www.brockwaybiggs.com) for making me an honorary super dude! i couldnt have done it without him!  check it.......

Things That Look Like A Turd...That You Can Eat Pt. 1

ok folks....here it is...i know you've been waiting for it...this is definitely going to be the silliest and possibly grossest segment on the tour blog....how ever...it will also likely be the funniest.....it occurred to me last tour that there are certain foods out there that people eat that kinda look like a turd.....yet we eat the food anyway....this is segment one of things that look like a turd that you can eat...in segment one we focus on one of 7/11's finest nasty products......we call this one.......the turd dog!

cool pics

hi there we are in edmonton now at my pal jim sullivans place. chillaxin for a few days. i found these pics and thought i'd post a couple. the spider bug was captured on our way to manitoba and the grain building was on our was to edmonton from prince albert.......dig it.

What is it pt 1 the reveal

well since no one go the first one i'm gonna reveal it....for the next episode of What Is It we will shorten the answers to five until there are more people to play the contest. so here it is the photo of a collection of mine and karls .....TOE NAILS!!!!!!

we'll put up part 2 of "What is it" in a few days.

five cents a bag?

so sobeys is charging five cents a bag for plastic bags now? for real? man......times are changin. are they doing this to save the earth and what not? does everyone know that there is an ice age coming? no really.....every 10 000 years or so...you could prolly set your giant long term clocky thingy by it.....nothing we can do bout it either....its happened before and will continue to happen....ice age.......anyway i digress...karl aint too happy bout the five cents a bag dealy.......watch yerself sobeys.

winterpeg and reginacology

well we were happy to split outta thunder bay. we settled into ruby for the drive to winnipeg, stonewall to be precise. we got in about 10pm to dan and kristens house.  dan is my cousin and he and kristen treat us sooo good. it is always awesomeness to have family to visit. we had a nice chat and then crashed hard. deliscious breaky int he morning which in most likely goint ot win breaky of the week for next weeks podcast but...it is early...could be more great breaky in the future! after breaky we got back in the van to head for regina....home of our first saskatchewan gig ever! 

we got to regina event free and found our venue. ole mcnallys tavern. good sound system, nice staff. looked like all would be good. sounds check was pretty quick and we had some time to kill.....

 i didnt realize my phone hadnt changed time and i ended up thinking it was an hour later all night......it was a small crowd but we had fun. met some nice peeps and sold some cds. good night all in all. oh yeah...i forgot to mention that our waitress was going to a lesbian baking party after her shift so we tried to convince her to bring us back some baked goods by telling her that lesbians love us! (no really, thats a true story) and she did!!!!

fear & loathing in thunder bay

wow. Thunder bay is a full on shit hole. we hit t-bay monday night and holed up in a rather pricey but safe hotel. the thunder bay inn is a nice enough spot but the guy who ran it was a tight ass. no guests or deliveries after 10.30pm, rations of ice in small little bags and unwillingness to give shawn an ethernet cable....all these add up to -wiener- in my books.

i started tuesday by finding out that our saskatoon gigs were cancelled because the bar double booked us and couldnt switch anything around to help us out. this hurt bad budget wise and just plain sucked all round as we were really looking forward to playing at bud's on broadway. a lot of my fav guitar players came up playing there and i was looking forward to rocking the joint. anyway, we went downtown t-bay to find an internet cafe and after driving around for far too long we ended up going to starbucks for the afternoon so we could figure out what to do about the saskatoon screw up. in the end we realized that it was just one of those things that we cant change so we packed up and headed on over to the venue for the night....the apollo is on a main drag kinda street full of depression, darkeness and dreary. everywhere you look in t-bay is sad, and cold. the saving grace however was the folks at the apollo. we arrived to meet sheila our host. after inquiring about details we were treated to a pork tenderloin dinner by sheila's mom, tina. both sweethearts. the dinner was fabulous and it was topped off with cheesecake!!! we were feeling better already. 

the apollo also had a kick ass sound system that we couldnt wait to send our rawk through. the sound man was alex. a good guy and competent sound tech. we played to a small but appreciative crowd and sheila gave karl bastards the award of best drummer to ever have played the apollo. yup. thats right. gans kicks ass.  at the end of the night we went upstairs to have some wine, chill and crash. thanks to the apollo crew for saving the day in thunder bay. y'all rock! 

Ok. i know y'all have been dying to see the carbquing sessions so here are a couple vids for you to check out......

i believe this was the inaugural attempt........

Attempt number two...Eggs......this attempt didnt work either and we learned a lot....mostly not to put all our eggs in one basket so to speak!!!! more tins equals shorter cooking time. what can we say. we were young and learning.....

Here is a video from last night in wawa. it had been a kinda....like a....nothing go right day and this is a little vent.....

ok so that should make you laugh for a bit.....we have lots more an dwe are trying to find a better format to present them to you....looking into youtube. stay tuned.....

MB

WHAT IS IT? (part 1)

ok..... i know i'm bombarding you with posts here..... but i am just getting caught up....besides, aren't you smiling?

here is a segment of the blog that we are calling "what is it?" .....this is our attempt to get y'all to interact with us.....we show you a picture of something shot close up. after ten guesses, FROM YOU READERS, we'll tell you what it is and try to  post a pic...BUT.....if someone guesses right the round stops there and the winner will receive one free Ross Neilsen & The Sufferin Bastards trucker hat......thats right. 

FREE SWAG! oh yeah!

OKOKOK. here is the first pic....so...can you guess?.......................WHAT IS IT??? 

unka peeeeee

check it out...its uncle pat from trenton. this is where we hang when we are in the area. he and auntie D are the BEST hosts. we dont get to see em as much as we like to but we sure do appreciate our time when we get there! love you guys! 

PS...uncle Pat was featured in our first podcast ....what? you didnt hear that? here it is....

http://www.cyberears.com/podcasts/podcast_5518.xml

horny goat weed

hi again....just wanted to drop a few pics and videos to y'all for your viewing pleasure....

in this one we see a little package of something that claimed to enhance your sexual abilities if you are a dude. well we were enjoying a visit from the one and only mark richardson and i simply asked mark to take the pills.....and he did. the funniest part is the ingredients on the side of the pack....check it out! i n the end we wanted to consult mark the next day and see ho whe made out when he got home if you catch my drift but we never got back in touch  with him! i'm sure he was "fine". thanks to mark for stopping by. always hilarious and fun to catch up! 

the great lake they call gitche gume

hi

i know...two posts in one day...wow. i forgot to say that on the way to wawa we had the luxury of watching the sun set the whole way and it was stunning. just stunning.  today was another day of beautiful lakes and scenery that we will never take for granted. canada is truly magnificent and we are very fortunate to be able to view it this way. thanks to rocknroll and all who make it possible for us to do this.

MB

11 north 17 west (aka no gas 'tween the soo & wawa)

hey everybody

well we are finishing breaky in WAWA!!! i'm gonna put up a bunch of pics and video later today but for now thought i'd give a quick recap......

Wed, April 29 - we played at the golden pheasant in St catherines....this place was funky....real roadhouse feel to it. the owner, jack, was an awesome dude and had lots of great tales for us. we had a fun time playing even though it was sparsely attended. we did get to see our friends betty & joe so that was cool! there was a high crazy quotient here as most of the regulars were kinda barflyish but fun peeps. we met a local named bob who was by far the craziest we've met on this trip. we like dhim so much we gave him a hat. bob had a killer ray charles impression too!

Thurs, April 30 - we played in toronto around the corner from my sisters house. the club is called the pressclub and is a nice laid back spot. great people here. big thanks to ian and mikael. good times had by all even if it was a little sweaty!!! we enjoyed some bobby duvals, which is a shot of jamesons with some amaretto.....mmmmmmmmm.

Friday may 1 - collingwood. home of the elis impersonators. we love this town. lots of fun. we had promised last time that we would have a few pops with them when we came back through and we didnt let them down. we have some great podcast footage as well as some fine pics that i will post later on.....we stayed at our friends allison and heathers art studio where there were many facinating artifacts like a chrome deers head, obama action figure and a playboy from 1962! we had a lot of fun much to the dismay of the guy down the hall (who wasnt suposed to be there) ....he confronted our little gang when we got there and said he was going to call the owner of the building as he "knew him". turns out the guy was the owner of the buildings son...so he in fact called his daddy on us. party pooper. we decided to have fun anyway. so we did.

Sat may 2 - we got up and had a surly breakfast at chartreus.....then hit the road for north bay....we played at 100 georges. great spot....awesome food...tied with the oasis for the guilty of being deliscious award. we had a lot of fun with the patrons and staff alike. good dancing here folks! after the gig we went back to our home in NB. the ole voyager hotel, or the VOY as the regulars call it. last time we were here we were sure the maids were running another business (hookers) out of the hotel...this time we didnt even see a maid. weird.

sun may 3 - drive drive drive. we decided to abandon our cheap hotel in the soo for the option to drive farther thus allowing us to try another round of engine cuisine...aka ...car-bqing......we hit sudbury grocery store hard. pork, sausage and cabbage rolls. this turned out to be a bit of an error in judgement. when we hit the soo the liquor store was closed cause we forgotit was sundeeee! we also didnt get gas in the soo thinking the half tank we had would get us to the next town for a fill up. WRONG. there is no post 9pm fill up between the soo and wawa. so we found a spot with cell reception, called in our wishes for gasoline to CAA and had a sandwich picnic. once we hit wawa we went right to the Beaver motel (yup) to get a cheap room. turns out that after midnight all the cheap hotels are closed. we ended up staying at the motor inn for extra bucks...the good thing here was that the bar stayed open for us to get some "relaxers" into us. an hour later we were relaxing in the hotel room...we grabbed the food off the carbque and realized the pork was lost....good news was the cabbage rolls were hot! (ok warm) so we ate em....we sliced and diced the sausage and fried it on our in room coffee maker to have a deliscious in room meal of cabbage rolls n sausage!!! after reviewing our video footage we have decided to post some in the next 24hrs. got some gems folks! 

so that about does it...we're about to leave the ole wawa motor inn (largest fireplace in northern ontario! true story!) to head for thunder bay...we hope to have a cheap room before we hit TB so we can put our new podcast together. it should be up tomorrow night so i'll let y'all know. we have some gems this week folks!

talk to you soon,

MB