Facts About 1st half of Tour

Hi all,

Now that we flew in to Cleveland to begin the second half of the tour, after a week back in LA, I wanted to share a few facts from the first half of the tour:

-Miles driven: 3,000 plus
-States we passed through: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
-Taiko groups we visited: Las Vegas Kaminari Taiko, Moab Taiko Dan, Junior Denver Taiko, Ho Etsu Taiko, Kokyo Taiko, Midwest Buddhist Temple Taiko, Fort Wayne Taiko, Dublin Taiko, Pittsburgh Taiko
-Movies watched (or listened to if we were driving) on our portable DVD player: Napoleon Dynamite (plus various funny clips we watched over and over), The Simpsons Movie, Pulp Fiction, Brokeback Mountain, The Breakfast Club, Smoke Signals
-Fast/bad food we ate: only Wendy's, IHOP!!! Somehow, I still gained weight...
-New funny situations that surfaced: The Snarr Face, something about Kevin that I can't blog about, Tomomi to Bryan: "You don't like it, so it makes me smile", Jen's jazz hands during a rehearsal of Many Sides, Uncle Rico's reaction after smacking Napoleon in the face with a steak, Yumi as a GPS voice, All-American Dad voice