College Park, Maryland

We arrived in the College Park area, still sobering up from the whole New York experience, to find ourselves stuck in a steady stream of cars heading towards the University of Maryland where the venue was located. Apparently a huge football game was scheduled which made traffic rather messy. We eventually made our way to the venue, a cozy coffee shop, and quickly realized it would not be a suitable place to rock out, especially with students studying for midterms throughout the joint. For this reason, Colin and Mike played acoustic sets and I took the night off. Chris was in Pennsylvania visiting with his family and will meet us in DC tomorrow.

The performances were good, but the evening was mostly nice because the coffee shop is in the ground floor of a house with couches and comfortable places to relax. We felt like we were hanging out in someone’s living room, so although the show was not ideal, it made for a nice transition back into the rhythm of touring after spending so much time in New York.