**MUSIC**

So we have developed a system for playing music in the bus as we make our way down to the Con. Basically it started with the driver (once we got off the ferry) and will work itself around the bus over and over and over and over and over ect. Everyone gets to play 1 Album, front to back. Or if someone wants to put on a collection of music, they get 12 songs. I will be keeping track of the music we listen to. If someone chooses an album I will write that down (Artist : Album). If they decide to play 12 random songs, I will just put down Bills Random Mix #1 feat. (Artist : Song) And at the end of the day I will post that information in thee blog (if the intranets allows me)

Day 1 Music

Ben – Bag Fries (Geoff and Pats Band)
Matt – Kasabian – Empire
Bill – Rage Against the Machine – Self Titled
Adam – Mix #1 – feat. Boy Night Out – Up with me
Alex – Mix#1 – feat. Chemical Bros – Galvanize
Paul – BNL – Gordon
Morgan – Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Graham – NA
James – NA

**POINT CHALLENGE**

I can blame no one for this atrocious idea but myself. Simply put, anyone at anytime may challenge anyone, anywhere to do something. That could be eating something gross or whatever else they can think of. There are 3 levels of challenges:
1pt : Easy Challenge
2pt : Mediocre Challenge
3pt : Should you really be doing this? Challenge
Once the challenge is set forth, anyone else can pipe up and throw in a point as well.
(Example: Bill gets challenged by Adam to drink something dumb. For completing this challenge he gets 1pt. If say I, or Morgan, or anyone else really wants to see Bill do this, they can throw in 1pt as well. If 3 more people are willing to throw in points Bill will get 4pts.)
The points do nothing. We keep track of them and whoever wins, wins. It honestly means nothing. There are a few additional rules but none that really need to be known. So as well as the Blog, The Music list and the pictures, I will also be posting the days points.

Day 1 Points

Ben – NA
Matt – NA
Bill – NA
Adam – 3
Alex – 1
Paul – NA
Morgan – 5
Graham – 1
James – 4

3:00
So we got the hell outta Olympia with pizza to boot. Heading for some factory outlet stores further south and are just about to head back out on the road. Adam and Bill have died and gone to heaven. They are currently inside the Nike Outlet Store trying on shoes that actually fit them. WEIRD!!!

4:22
Well I knew it was going to happen but I was hoping not this quick. We just got past Vader, WA and the bus started to loose momentum. And just as we passed a bridge we had to pull over. So I am sitting on the side of the 1-5 with a bus that we are hoping to hell just over heated! I am being told that it was most likely overheating cause we have a coolant leak! YAH!

5:22
So it’s an hour later and thanks to some awesome dude who towed us into a HUGE truck stop we are at a mechanic. More to come 😛

6:13
We are coming up to 6:30 and there is some good news and some bad news. The good news is the Bus starts. The bad news is we haven’t actually had a mechanic look at it yet.
So some of the guys just went into the truck stop to grab some food. Now I guess we will sit around and wait for a mechanic to at least take a quick look at what the problem is.

6:50
Ok we are back on the road. Had a mechanic check it out and he seems to think it was just an over heating issue. (GOD I HOPE SO) And the whole thing became completely worth it. And that is defiantly something that is going to remain a secret. It was just to fucking good to share with you right now. Our goal is to try and make it to Eugene, OR. Thought if we can make decent time we might be able to get to Medford, which was our original goal!

8:30
So we broke down again. Waiting for Mechanic, that is all.

8:54
Ok so we now have the mechanic out taking a once over of the bus. He seems to think the problem is gas is not getting to the engine. He doesn’t seem to think it is the gas pump, which is a very good thing. Right now he is thinking it might be a blockage in the gas line.

10:06
We spent almost 6 hours coming to the realization that cars, do in fact, NEED GAS. Now before you tear into us for being completely fucking retarded there were extenuating circumstances. We learned a couple things about our bus today that might have been good to know YESTERDAY!!! (name the reference) So we are now (hopefully) on the way to Portland, OR. Any family or girlfriends that may be reading this blog might want to consider on looking into a new sons or boyfriends. 🙁

12:17
FUCK YOU WASHINGTON STATE! Not the people mind you. They were pretty rad. So we finally made it through to Portland, about 4 hours shy of where we wanted to be. Surprising about how long it took us to be not stupid. It took a couple trys, but we finally found a hotel to stay in. Got 2 rooms and a deal to boot! So that was good. Today has been nothing short of a whirlwind. It was awesome but certainly painful at some points. I would like to personally like to thank the following people.

-The guy who actually stopped on the I5 and towed us into the truck stop. Can’t remember his name but he was awesome.
-The mechanics at the body shop. Our stupidity was not there fault and they helped out so much and charged us so little. You my friends, are heroes.
-And to the guy at the hotel we are staying at right now. These 2 rooms would have normally cost us upwards of 300.00 but he gave both of them to us for 200.00.
-Also Jesus, Jesus is our Homeboy!

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I will fix this post tomorrow. To lazy to fucking spell check right now.

So I think what I am going to do with this blog is just try and write stuff as we go. And then when I come across a wireless network I can update what I have so far and then put some pictures up at the end of the day.

6:30
We got to the ferry this morning, stupid early and got through with very little problems. We are on the ferry as I write this, and my god is it ever foggy right now. The Foghorn is going off every couple minutes. Once we get into Port A, we can hopefully get that group shoot that should have been taken yesterday.

9:30
So we got off the ferry without much hassle. I honestly think this whole “road trip” is really starting to sink in. We all are sitting around the bus right now shooting the shit, listening to music and we all just have HUGE shit eater grins on all our faces! We are currently on the way to Olympia, WA.

10:15
Just had to quickly post once more before we get to Olympia. We just stopped off at some random town to shotgun a couple energy drinks and general tom foolery. Pictures below!

12:15
Just arrived in Olympia. Me, Graham and Morgan are staying with the bus as I type this, while the other idiots are off trying to find us food. They are being dumb. Very dumb.

Just leaving our house now. Been in touch with Graham and that household. They are awake, i guess thats something.
No answer from Matt. He had better be in the shower or hes staying home 😛
Paul is up and awake. Ah Paul, is there anything you can’t do?

Originally I had planned on posting a HUGE group shoot tonight. Unfortunatly things were kinda nuts today and we all had stuff to take care of, so ignore what i said yesterday about a post tonight.

In fact i never said there would be a post today.