words by: Keir Johnson
photo: Michael Leong

Keir_Sup Reese, so how did this whole tour happen last summer?

Reese_Well, Staba called up Rick and Mike at Girl one day, they told him they were doing the states for about a month straight with people jumping on and off the trip. Brad asked if we could go and they said sure, the only problem was they didn't have any room left in the van. Brad and I really wanted to go, but we would have to find other arrangements for transport. So we just took my car instead...

Keir_What car would that be?

Reese_Basically I met someone who knew someone at Jaguar... I have an arrangement where my job responsibility is to drive the cars around and look cool, oh yeah and valet park them... can't forget that!

Keir_I hear you, so you guys just jumped in the ship and that was that, what was the first day like?

Reese_The first day was actually pretty mellow... Brad and I had not seen each other in a while so we just kicked it. We drove into New Mexico which was like a 13 hour drive, something like that, we just straight drove it. We ended up stopping for the night after that, slept, drank coffee and hit the road again for about about 9 hours. By this time it seemed like we had been on the road forever.

Keir_Where were the Girl/Chocolate guys at this point, no sign of them yet?

Reese_I don't really know .... because they had driven ahead of us and we didn't catch up to them until somewhere around Arlington Texas, but it was cool cause until that point we were just chilling, going at our own pace you know?

Keir_And thats when the HOV factor kicked in? When did you pick up this famous passenger I've heard about?

Reese_Her name was Crystal! She was pretty cool... you know out there on the road you can get really sick of talking to just one person... so when Brad and I would get annoyed with each other she was there to comfort us. She was cool, she just kicked it, wore her seatbelt and behaved herself.

Keir_What happened when the feds pulled you over?

Reese_I got pulled over in Texas for speeding, but she kept her pretty little mouth shut and did not speak, she didn't tell the officer about the other stuff we had in the car haha...

Keir_So she was peeps?

Reese_Yeah, at one point we had these two girls laughing there asses off beside us on the road for about ten miles. I think they thought we were devious monsters or something...

Keir_Was Staba psyched?

Reese_Yeah, and Brad would take pictures of dead roadkill. I would have to pull over every time we saw any on the road.

Hopefully Crystal is doing her thing out there.

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