ya. I too am back from warped tour now. I have stories for all lets start at the...
Beginning
Matt, Margaret, and I planned on leaving to Bozeman around 2pm and getting there around 3:30 so we could walk around on main st and see stuff and what not. Well, around noon I decided it would be cool to bring my brother along, which complicated things. we ended up waiting around the house till 5:15 when we could leave because he was baby sitting. Anyways, we met up with Brian K. and decided to take two cars up. Like a caravan thing. we met up at walmart, and as we were leaving wal-mart the car was shaking really bad, but only when we sped up or slowed down. We couldn't pin point what the problem was. We figured it was a: a wheel bearing, b: bad c.v. joints. So we stopped at conoco. Marget and co. didn't see us pull over so they kept driving, leaving brian and I behind with car trouble. We figure the car was good enough to catch up to them and stop them. So we drove like 110 mph towards townsend to catch up with margaret. We finally caught up with them and slowed them to a stop. We told them the problem and decided to stop in Townsend where my dad could check it out. My dad look at it, said it was a bad cv joint and that the car is drivable if you can stand the noise. Well we parted Townsend on our way to bozeman. The car didn't seem to be getting any better or worse by the time we got to wheat montana. We stopped for dinner and then were on our way.
Trouble Begins.
The car was doing fine until we got to belgrade when we were driving about 90mph and the left front tire broke off of the car, rolling through the ditch seperating the oncoming traffic from our lanes, rolled past another car in the opposite direction, and about 1/4 of a mile to 1/2 a mile down the road, meanwhile brians car is skidding out of control and some how he managed to control the car and get it stopped on the side of the road. We both got out, scared as hell, crying and confused as to what the fuck just happened. Anyways we waited prolly 10 minutes for margaret to catch up to us, she stopped and then Kyle Simpson stopped as well. We waited again for a highway patrol person to get there and help us out. We survived this mess, and brians car is fixed now.
First Night.
We met up with everyone at World Boards when we got the car situation settled for the evening. Take into consideration this is now 9:30 pm, we planned on being in bozeman at 5. So 4 1/2 hours later, and spirits at a low from previous circumstances, we decided not to camp that night, and to stay with Theresa and Sean, who have an apartment in bozeman, and were kind enough to let us stay there for the night.
Day of Warped Tour.
We woke up got ready for the day and headed off to warped tour. We got there and the line for warped was huge, we probably waited to get to the gates for at least an hour. probably more. Once inside it was great, the bands were awesome. I got to see the ataris, good charlotte, me first, the vandals(the best show at warped), fenix tx(i found them very disappointing live), and many more. There was this one band there called Liars Inc. Super great band. I got some cool shit, and warped was a good time.
Night of warped tour.
Everyone planned on meeting at a place called Jaker's Restraunt? Well we found out this place never existed so we went to Perkins. We ran into the Ashlai(ashley tall girl, and ashley stevic?) anyways, we decided to go camping with them. We drive up passed hayelite campgrounds, to a secluded area in the hayelite canyon somewhere. heheeh. we must have drove an hour to find the place we eventually called camp. We slep in a meadow, it was great. The weather was perfect for it. We just slept under the stars. It was great.
And here we are now, and thats a really really really reeally short summary of my 01 warped tour experience. Now I must go help my parents unload a fence. see ya.