REWJR: THINGS I BOUGHT ON SAINTSENECA TOUR

The last two weeks of August saw me traveling west for the first time in my life. Saintseneca, a folk band from Columbus, Ohio, asked me to partially fill-in for Luke Smith who could not make the trip. This would be the third tour (first, second) of 2011 I would go on, and the third out of three in which Maryn Jones would be traveling with me, filling in for Luke along my side. The tour would end in Bloomington, Indiana, where I would then live.

Three days before the tour began, Saintseneca's primary songwriter Zac Little and I drove my belongings to my future home in Bloomington, Indiana. I left $320 for a security deposit in a Langston Hughes book in my closet for Matt, whose room I would be moving into. Most of the money I made in the summer working at St. Joseph Montessori School's Summer Learning Camp had to be used for said security deposit, August's rent, & September's rent. This meant I would have a diminutive amount of money to use for the tour west. Graciously, Saintseneca agreed to pay Maryn and myself $5 a day for playing with them on the tour, translating to $75 total for fifteen days of traveling. I ended up never having to spend any money of my own, using the combination of this daily allowance, the gifts and graciousness of others (most places we played at cooked us food or gave us a free meal otherwise), and a little self-restraint on my stomach's part. In terms of food for the trip, I brought a jar of peanut butter, a bag of brazil nuts, a bag of some kind of trail mix from the Clintonville food co-op, and a bag of almonds.

I realize the utter subjective nature of this experience, understand the obfuscation and impossibility of any true-capital-t-truth that this post holds in any theoretical sense.

This is firstly an account of the things I bought on a tour with the band Saintseneca from August 14th to August 29th. Lastly, I don't know what it is.

THINGS I BOUGHT ON SAINTSENECA TOUR

8/16/11 - Order of french fries from a diner, Badlands National Park - $2.00
8/17/11 - 20 oz. coffee to-go from Wall Drug, Wall, SD - $0.64
8/18/11 - Veggie scramble, biscuits & gravy, coffee at Hungry Tiger Too, Portland, OR - $10.00
8/19/11 - Threw in for a twelve pack of Rainier Beer, Seattle, WA - $2.00
8/20/11 - Hasbrowns and bottomless coffee at Wayward Vegan Cafe, Seattle, WA - $4.20
8/20/11 - Cariboos beer at W2 Media Cafe, Vancouver, BC - $4.50
8/21/11 - Order of fried pan potatos & bottomless coffee at Bon's, Vancouver, BC - $3.30
8/21/11 - Bought a beer from Maryn, Olympia, WA - $1.00
8/22/11 - Five bananas, 2 lb bag of carrots at a Safeway, Portland, OR - $3.20
8/23/11 - Order of fries & coffee from In-n-out burger, Somewhere, CA - $2.89
8/23/11 - Tip on a free beer at Amnesia, Sanfransico, CA - $1.00
8/24/11 - Split a coffee w/ Maryn at Denny's, Emery, CA - $1.00
8/24/11 - 2 lb bag of carrots, rice cakes, grapefruit from Grocery Outlet, Oakland, CA - $3.72
8/26/11 - Footlong veggie sub from Subway, Parachute, CO - $5.30
8/27/11 - French fries and various beers from Record Bar, Kansas City, MO - $12.50
8/28/11 - Coffee from McDonald's, Somewhere, MO - $1.00
8/28/11 - Tips on free beers from O'Leaver's Pub, Omaha, NE - $2.00
8/29/11 - 20 oz coffee from Pilot, Somewhere, IA - $1.00
8/29/11 - Cobb salad from the Owlery, Bloomington, IN - $8.50

TOTAL : $69.75