I didn't wake up till noon. We missed the free breakfast at the hotel and all needed to shower. We finally left the hotel around one and used the GPS to find us a nice breakfast place to soothe our hung over bodies. Actually, since I didn't drink much the night before I felt fine. And although Matt skull beer bonged his way through the night, he was feeling pretty great too. That left Kim, who felt like shit.
I got some awesome waffles and some hashbrowns and some coffee.
The drive to Bend doesn't really involve any major highways. Bend, being in the middle of nowhere, Oregon, lacks that sort of luxury. Also the GPS decided to take us on the scenic route. The road was so fucking windy and insane that most of the drive was spent going 20mph. Needless to say, this didn't help Kim's hangover.
Although unaware before hand, the scenic route took us straight through McKenzie Pass, which was a welcome surprise. For those who don't feel like clicking the provided link, McKenzie Pass winds through an old lava flow which is somewhere around 400 years old.
Some crazy dude named Dee Wright built this observatory out of lava rock n the 1800s.
We made it to the venue around 6pm. I had been to Bend once in the past to go snowboarding, but didn't really remember too much. Warren had found out some facts about the place including: The original name of Bend was "Farewell Bend", later changed by the US Post office. The town is 94% white.
Although I can't verify the first, I did notice a severe lack of diversity at the show. To be fair, punk shows are generally biased towards white kids, but these white kids were crazy. The show had a strange vibe - as if all the kids at the show were ready to fight anyone at any time and only wanted to mosh as hard as possible. This proved true when David played his set and everyone talked over him the entire time. Matt and Kim's set was well received although the stage monitors had to be moved a few times due to rowdy kids. Because I was ready to push kids off stage at any second, I didn't bother taking any pictures.
Against Me! set went off without any fights really breaking out in the pit or people jumping on stage and breaking things. But there was definitely a lot of crazy dancing and moshing and apparently some fights outside.
Kim left the dome light on in the van, so before we left for Portland we got a jump from the Dondero crew. I drove till 4pm, when we finally reached Thea's house in Portland. I ended up sleeping on a dirty couch in the basement of her place, since the other option was a wood floor. Sorry Matt and Kim!
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