The Local Dungeon

     We had already driven the route from Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada to Abilene, Texas, USA. It normally takes approximately 30hours to drive one way non-stop. This time around, we had arrived near our destination in the very early morning. We decided to take a rest at a truck stop to wait out the time for a while. Nothing keeps you more on edge than sitting at one of these areas with dim light, having a van packed with our equipment and the fact that we were so far from home didn't help. It’s an entirely different way of life than what we were used to.        A few hours later, we decided to get back on the road to our hosts house in Abilene. We had stopped at a Love’s Truck Stop to freshen up. You go in and make a reservation for a time slot of 15 minutes or so in one of the bathroom/shower stalls. We all managed to get a time slot in the same time frame so that was nice. Once finished there, we kept on going.    ...

  We had all just been sitting at one of our buddies places(the keyboardist), and doing what we usually did, drank beer..... Lots of beer... And laughed at just about anything and nothing at all... I don't remember how the topic came up but we had started talking about how fun it would be to get together and jam. That's when we realized how serious we were. I had gone out and purchased a bass. A 5-string Squier Affinity series JBass. It is now a fretless bass...       Next thing we needed to decide was a name. Once again, we were sitting around a table, this time at the drummers place, drinking beer and smoking cigs, pondering and saying different names out loud. We had tried an online band name generator that would come up with these random names based on the criteria we had entered. Various words pieced together kept coming up... none of them were anywhere near what we were aiming for. But, after some time of sitting, and pondering names, the word Highway kept...