I’ve been credited many times with being able to pick the perfect snacks. I never claimed to have this ability, but my impeccable track record speaks for itself. If you’ve ever traveled much, you know that stopping at a gas station or truck stop after hours of sitting inside a vehicle, can be a real treat. It starts with the road sign. Sometimes you’re in the middle of nowhere and your options are limited. Sometimes you happen upon a plethora of delicious choices between a Sheetz and a Pilot. Let’s imagine the latter together. The exit sign lays before us...

I love fireworks. I love fire and lights! I always have. There is only one, tiny problem with my relationship with exploding things - I love to push the limits of what you do with them.  When I was a kid, my dad, my brother, and I almost burnt down our neighbors yard by shooting a massive amount of bottle rockets everywhere. But you know how hard it is respecting other people’s property sometimes, right? So that leads me to the story where I burnt a giant hole in Devin’s backpack while on tour...with a bottle rocket...in our van with...

The year was 2008. We (Emery) were all grizzled old men just trying to make a living on the road, and we were invited on tour with a band called The Almost. They were becoming quite popular and were making waves in the Rock/Christian-Rock scene. The frontman was Aaron Gillespie (Underoath) and despite being a great singer and guitar player, he was an even better drummer. However, he wasn’t playing drums. This cool-looking kid with long blondish hair that could’ve been Toby’s son was playing drums, and he was phenomenal. Guess what - that kid was you! How old were...

I got cold feet one time and it changed my life forever. Now when I say cold feet, I mean literally cold feet. Most people don’t use “literally” correctly but I am. I didn’t back out of anything. My feet actually got extremely cold and that changed my life.   We traveled all over America for several years in a 2001 Ford E350 van. I love that van. It’s parked in my front yard as I write this. It’s done more for us and lasted longer than any other vehicle could have done. But there’s one issue that plagues me...

I don’t like having to get dressed and ready in the mornings. It’s exhausting to have to pick out what I’m going to wear for the day. On top of that, I usually still end up thinking I look like shit after looking through my clothes fifty times. I suffer from decision fatigue. I can’t decide on what to wear, so I go through everything and then just pick something because I can’t stand it any longer. But I found a real cure for my brain touring with Emery. I do something that you might not expect. Hell, you might...