Why do we look so upset? I’ll get to that later. For now, we’ve actually been back from tour for a solid week. I’ve been wanting to write this entry for awhile, but haven’t had the time since we’ve been shooting since we got back. Now that I’m at home and have some down time… here goes. Our Autumn 2009 Tour in Numbers and factoids…
Official US stops: 11
International stops: 1 (Niagara Falls Canada side)
Miles driven: 575
Cars rented: 2
Miles flown: 25,000+
States visited (including airports): ~13 (Can’t recall all stops)
Cross country flights: 8
Total flights (each of us including transfers): 20 TWENTY. That’s 60 combined!
Hotels stayed: 10
Swankiest hotel: The W in DC
Our favorite hotel: Hampton Inns
Hotels w/ free cookies in the lobby: 4 (Hotel Indigo, 2 Hamptons, 1 Comfort Suites)
Fans in total who attended the tour: ~2,610
Fans in total we met during meet&greet: ~1,550? hard to judge
Biggest audience: ~600 at Boston Univ. (BU)
Coziest audience: ~50 at Ball St.
Most diverse audience: Ball St.
Shirtless guys with Wong Fu painted on them: 6
Past organizers we met up with whom we haven’t seen in 1.5-3 years: 11
Birthdays celebrated while on tour: 2
Hours video taped: 5
Times Twilight was talked about: 5453802
That’s all I can muster up for now, and all my limited math skills allow me to compute. Needless to say it was an enormous voyage that’s incredible to look back on, but while we were doing all that traveling, was actually quite taxing and painful. The pic above for example, here’s the back story: Successful event, meet&greet 250 people, get back to hotel around 1am, handle some biz til 2ish, sleep for 2 hrs, get picked up at 4am to go to airport 1.5 hrs away, get to airport around 6am, wait for 1 hr for 8am flight to board, sit in small seat for 8 more hours. I think I forced the guys to take the picture right as we were seating. We had to do that routine several times through the trip.
BUT…everytime I wanted to complain about the travel and such, I had to remind myself, #1 it’s amazing that we have this opportunity to tour and I should feel so lucky to have supporters like you who make these events happen, #2 it’s amazing that planes even exist. Please watch the hilarious video below, it put things into perspective for me. Specifically starting at 2:30
With that so well said… on behalf of the 3 of us… Thank you for giving us the past month of painful traveling, because whenever we landed we were met with your amazing faces and smiles, making it all worth it! Can’t wait for future tours so we can see even more of you! Now, I gotta start editing those 5 hours of footage so you can actually see what happened on tour. Do you guys even wanna watch that? (say no, and you save me a lotta work, lol)
January 3, 2010 at 3:02 pm
i get anxious when flying despite learning physics because to me, it doesn’t make sense for men to fly. eep.
yes, i wanna see videos of the tour! maybe catch a glimpse of my friend getting some stuff signed for me, a fan from the other side of the world.
world tour soon? damn i wish i worked for an events company that could bring you here!
January 2, 2010 at 10:41 am
Going to be looking forward to those 5 hours of footage Lol
December 8, 2009 at 10:52 am
Hopefully I get to see you guys next year or sometime soon. Don’t forget to rest once in a while, you dont want to overwork yourself either. You guys are GREEEAAATT!!!! (tony the tiger style)
December 3, 2009 at 12:01 am
so we got the 6 painted guys at UT, i’m 1 in 11 of those past organizers.. and 50% of all the twilight talks were at barton creek in that one toy/game store hahaha
December 1, 2009 at 10:27 pm
of COURSE dc has the swankiest hotel :] by the way, you said you would give our group free stickers for tracking you down (stalking >_>) back to your hotel! can we still get those?
November 28, 2009 at 11:30 am
The east coast misses you guys a lot!!! Glad you had a great tour! =)
November 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm
pshhh chyeaa i wanna watch it!
thanks for editing* Phil!
i will meet you ted and wes in the future on another tour
hopefully
November 26, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Go Ball State!
Thanks for coming guys.
November 26, 2009 at 10:12 am
Woot Woot BU had the largest audience?
Hahahs funny stats! Thanks for coming!
November 26, 2009 at 8:29 am
I’m glad we got to see you guys! DIVERSE GROUP FTW! It was all great. You guys are amazing, hope to run into you soon!
November 26, 2009 at 7:01 am
aww, glad that you guys enjoyed the tour, but phil dont kill wes and ted along. There’s no harm in staying in one place a few days longer before moving to the next.
and no, we’ll NEVER say no to a wongfuvideo, but you can take your time. you know we’ll wait.
November 26, 2009 at 12:26 am
Fans in total who attended the tour: ~2,610
Think of it this way, that’s 2,610 people who’s day you’ve made brighter. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is.
November 25, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Crazy numbers! Nice job!!
And Happy Thanksgiving, btw! ; Eat up!
November 25, 2009 at 10:19 pm
lol
November 25, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Toronto wants you guys BACK. ;D! and take a QUICK short 10 minute nap. then edit please? =D! i think the answer should be yes!
November 25, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Thanks for sharing that video. It brightened my face for the time being. That’s the kind of stuff I really needed: Laughter. Thank you.
November 25, 2009 at 6:34 pm
That video put things into perspective for me too. Thanks for sharing, it definitely helped me see things differently.
And sorry, I wanna see the footage too :3
November 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Well to make you feel better, I had 4 midterms during one of those week. So I too lacked sleep. Anyways, luv you all.
November 25, 2009 at 5:41 pm
ahahaha sorry, phil. i wanna see the footage! xD
November 25, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Yes, I want to see the tour footage! (So I can see myself and squee over how I met you guys. `;P)
November 25, 2009 at 5:35 pm
post the pictures of the shirtless guys!!!
November 25, 2009 at 5:30 pm
dude you guys look like hip/cool gangstas….
November 25, 2009 at 5:26 pm
That list needed something at the end which was priceless~~Can’t wait for the tour vids!
November 25, 2009 at 5:24 pm
But of COURSE we want to see tour vids! Those of us who couldn’t make it out to the stops (or whose cities weren’t visited – coughVancouvercough) want to see what kind of shenanigans went down. Phil Chao’s coverage of the Niagara Falls stop was pretty hilarious already – looking forward to seeing everything else!
No rush or anything. =P
November 26, 2009 at 10:32 am
I second this entire comment =) Especially *coughVancouvercough*
November 25, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I wished you guys would of came to Miwaukee….
November 25, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Wow! Congrats to an amazing tour & the amazing accomplishments y’all have made! You’re very blessed, and we’re blessed to keep seeing what you’re putting out… thanks for all of your hard work!
You should all definitely take another nap…
…but then editing would be good because we’ll definitely wanna see the footage! -_-
//zim
P.S. Yay for Ball State being most diverse! *CHIRP CHIRP* hahahah, thanks for saying “coziest”…we loved it!
November 25, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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