If you didn’t know, we’re on tour in Germany — and I’m doing my best to write down what we’re experiencing! Feel free to read on if you’re curious.

The last time we were on an airplane together as a band, it was January 2020. Four years later, it feels a bit surreal to walk through the same steps and have them feel so different. Similar landmarks, airport terminals, cities, venues, but on the other side of the pandemic that radically changed travel and live music (along with pretty much everything else).

This time, we flew out of Detroit — spending an extra few hours in the car to save an extra couple hundred bucks. We got to my Aunt Jenny’s home right by the airport (next to the house that my dad grew up in), picked her up, and got to the terminal. She’ll keep our car at their’s until we return.

I learned that my her daughter Elise, a cousin on my dad’s side, had written an essay about our most recent record for a class in college. She got full marks for it. I am eager to read it.

The flights were relatively easy — about 6 hours to Iceland with a short layover, then about 3.5 hours to Berlin.