Truck Stop Showers & Walmart Bathrooms — Vans Warped Tour
PART 2 Since the age of eleven, I, without fail, came home from my date of the Vans Warped Tour every summer with sweat-soaked hair, freckled cheeks, smeared mascara, burnt-to-a-crisp shoulders, dirt covered ankles, ringing ears, and lightly bruised legs. I would beeline it straight to my shower to scrub off the full day of photo-pit hopping and circle pit stints, but most of the time it would take about two showers and a soak in an epsom salt filled-bath to actually bring my
Touring With 9 Strangers On A 30ft Bus — Vans Warped Tour
PART I This summer I got on an RV with people I didn't know (literally didn't even know anyone's names, hadn't added them on Facebook beforehand, etc.) to travel the country working on the entire 2018 Vans Warped Tour. It was very similar to the framework of an MTV reality show — a bunch of strangers in a house coexisting in chaos — except we were in a moving vehicle working for a music festival. What the "Shore Store" was to the Jersey Shore cast is essentially what "Cool Su
