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Volumen 1's Tour Diary


 

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  Baltic Tour Volumen 1's Tour Diary (2003)
(Tour:Baltic) - toured with Josh Vanek, Andy Smetanka, Mike "Private Dick, Dirty Finn" Valentine - Toured Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania


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09/02/2003 Helsinki and then Snappertuna

DAY 2 - ENTRY 1
Holy cats! It's 10:48AM on the 3rd. That's local time and we are finally part of the local timestream. Yesterday was the adjustment period and it was crazy.

After three flights, we arrived in Helsinki beaten and weary. No one had really slept at all. Next thing we knew, Miikka (Andy's good friend) was shuttling us around town. We snacked at a great pub (I had perch stew), and then Miikka took us over to pick out equipment. We were barely functional, but we still managed to get what we needed. The guys at the backline rental place were great. And.... they are letting us use all the stuff for free... Dang!

Here's a picture of the boss man during our shopping spree. (BTW, I've decided to upload all the completed text first and do the pictures when I've got decent bandwidth. So, you might not be seeing them yet. All the more reason to check back again.)



So, after getting all the gear, we hopped in the tour van (it's a beast) and headed for Pete's cabin in Snappertuna. Pete (whose actual name is sorted pronounced like Pet-tear-ree and spelled like Petteri) has a family cabin by an inlet of sorts. It is stunning here. Here's a picture of the cabin and I promise to upload more later.



Once we arrived (after loading up with fixins' and beer at the supermarket), we all set to different tasks. Petteri chopped wood and stoked the fire for the sauna. The rest of us sorted merch, stoked the fire in the cabin and picked mushrooms. That's right, I said mushrooms. They are everywhere! Here's a picture of one that Andy claims was the crazy fuel for Bezerker warriors. I'm going to slip it to Bob before we play and then drink his urine (which will apparently cause me to bezerk as well.)



Anyway, in traditional Volumen style, Bob and Doug made a feast of wild mushrooms, onions, tomato relish, salmon and sausage. Whew! Here's a pic of the finished (tee hee) mushrooms.



After dinner, we enjoyed a nice sweat in the sauna and a few beers. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we all awoke feeling like a million bucks (which was pretty much the polar opposite of our early dawn on the plane.)

Well... back to the cabin.


NEW!
Here's the whole gang walking around in Helsinki. We were all thinking, "This is nice. Where the hell are our beds!"


Here's bacon trying to solicit Finnish men into one wild and skinny night of love. Nollie-style.



Check out the sign over our heads. You can imagine what that did to our exhausted minds.



Yup.. it was like mental chinese water torture. When I finally laid eyes on this misshapen beast of a toilet, I think I broke down screaming... then I slept a little bit.




Everywhere we went, we all looked around for a soft piece of ground and grabbed it. I'm sure Miikka was pretty excited at the prospect of spending 2 weeks with us in a van. I mean, we were practically bouncing off the roof... heh.



Here's a picture of the bitchin' breakfast we had.



Here's a picture of what it looked like while you were sitting in the outhouse. Not that I would know, mind you. Being a robot I do not need to eat or excrete.



Here's an inside and outside view of our touring van while we were in Finland. If you think it looks huge and cumbersome, just you wait till you see the Blue Whale. Check out that bench. Yup it was pretty comfortable. Four on the bench, one lying on the ground, three up front. Sweet!




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