Fields in Iowa, the sunset in Kentucky, the sunset in Louisiana…

You know, a lot of my friends have given me flack for never leaving the country (note: I have been to Canada, but apparently that doesn’t count). It’s not that I don’t want to leave the states for a few days and see new and exotic places, like, you know, Botswana, but I always felt you should completely know YOUR country before leaving to explore someone else’s.

What’s this have to do with tour photography?

Well, I finally uploaded all of my tour images to Flickr, thus making them insanely easy to view. You can check out the Strange Distress Calls Tour, Aim For Your Hearts Tour, Intensity In-Ten-Cities Tour, Sleep-In-You Tour, and Over & Out Tour, all on my Flickr page.

Man that was a lot of links.

These galleries feature time on the road with bands like Cute Is What We Aim For, David Melillo, Farewell, Foster, Just Surrender, Sleepaway, Socratic, Tourmaline,  The Transit War, Upper  Class Trash, and more. Artists from labels like Drive Thru, Fueled By Ramen, Atlantic, and Universal. Fun times, good music.

That being said, I’ve successfully seen every single state within the continental USA while on these tours. I feel like people get so accustomed to city life or, such as with my hometown friends, living in New Jersey, they forget that the rest of our country is absolutely breathtaking. So before you plan that wild trip to Italy or Botswana, think about hopping on an Amtrak train, and visiting middle America. No sense in seeing other countries if you don’t even know your own.

*insert obligatory patriotic country music here and/or theme from Team America*