[NEWS, WEATHER, and SPORTS - May, 2008: South by Southwest]

Just like on the 2007 leg, Neil Peart has taken advantage of the band's first extended break on the tour to compose another News Update to his website. Neil chronicles his motorcycle adventures over the first part of the tour, riding his way from east to west from Puerto Rico to California. There are a number of especially good photographs included in this update as well. Neil's also very pleased with the tour and how the band is playing:

... Hoping not to appear immodest (to quote Dizzy Dean again, “It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”), I have to say that I think the band is playing at its absolute peak. (And I guess that’s not bragging—I’m only talking about our peak, not anybody else’s!)

But each show takes so much out of us that we live in a world of hurt, especially towards the end of a long run like this one. But—it’s a good hurt. It is well earned, and well rewarded ...

Thanks to cincyrushgirl for the heads up.

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