Tucson

After a ripping night in Las Vegas (Merchy Rob and I passed out in the van. Getting back into the hotel room was too much hassle), we headed out to Tucson, riding under a daylight moon before the mountains of madness.

We played a great show at Solar Culture, then spent the night at Weezie, Jade, and Rose's. Merchy, Rose, and I got up early to go to the junkyard so that we could fix one of the more minor problems with the tour van - the major ones being the crappy front end and the brakes that we had replaced a month ago at great expense. Anyway, it doesn't matter, because we couldn't find the part. We did see a sweet 67 falcon van, but I stupidly left without taking a photo. Idiot. Please accept the consolation prize, Rose and Rob:

From Wikipedia

The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), pronounced /ˈɒsəˌlɒt/, also known as the dwarf leopard or McKenney's wildcat[citation needed] is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico, but has been reported as far north as Texas and in Trinidad, in the Caribbean. North of Mexico, it is found regularly only in the extreme southern part of Texas,[3] although there are rare sightings in Southern Arizona.[4]

The ocelot is similar in appearance to a domestic cat. Its fur resembles that of a clouded leopard or jaguar and was once regarded as particularly valuable. As a result, hundreds of thousands of ocelots were once killed for their fur. The feline was classified a "vulnerable" endangered species from 1972 until 1996, but is now rated "least concern" by the 2008 IUCN Red List.