North By Northwest

After the Dandy's tour wrapped up in Portland, I stayed behind for an extra week of running around the NW with Malia. We had gone to see My Bloody Valentine in LA which was pretty astounding in it's sheer volume (especially during the 17 minute noise jam) and on the first day after tour we saw Sigur Ros from the front row in Portland. I normally don't like to be quite THAT close for a show but it was fucking amazing. Malia got some good pics with my phone despite her being devastated that she didn't bring her camera in.

MJ at breakfast in Portland...
Sigur Ros...

We spent a couple days in Portland before going to Seattle for a day. We spent the rainy day doing typical Seattle things...coffee & record shopping on capital hill, wandering the Experience Music Project & Space Needle... we had an amazing mexican dinner before getting on the road south.
Shooting the deserted amusement park in Seattle...

We stopped in Grant's Pass, OR to sleep and had breakfast & looking around before spending the day meandering down to Arcata. We woke up there & after breakfast cruised south thru the redwoods along the Avenue of the Giants and on out to the coast, stopping in Ft. Bragg for dinner and rolling the rest of the way to San Francisco. We had a nice couple days in SF meandering around SF & Marin. We got to witness Angel Island (an undeveloped island in SF bay) on fire which was pretty crazy to see. All in all it was a super fun way to wrap up the tour. I flew home from SF and MJ headed home to LA.

The redwoods...
Orick, CA knows what America needs...

News reporter talks about the fire...