Tomorrow we leave on tour for a month with MercyMe and others on the Rock & Worship Roadshow. We are all really excited and can’t wait to play for all those people. But when you’re leaving on a long trip you have to get your things in line. We won’t have much room for bags so you really have to pick and choose what you want to bring with you on a trip like this.

Let’s see . . . toothbrush, blue shoes, cargo shorts – these are all essentials but what I absolutely won’t forget on any band trip is my favorite movie of all time, ‘Back to the Future‘.

It might surprise you to know that we watch ‘Back to the Future‘ several times a year, if things are really crazy we’ll watch it once a month. See when life gets crazy and hectic on the road sometimes you need an escape. Sometimes escaping isn’t possible when you’re in a van for fifteen hours – but pop in this little gem and suddenly you’re whisked away back to 1955 and everything seems to be a little better.

The scene when Marty McFly first walks into the downtown square in 1955 and the song “Mr. Sandman” is playing is one of my favorite scenes from any movie. You can’t quite explain it but something just feels so good when you see it.

As much as I’m looking forward to the tour there will be points when it will be hard, it’s tough to be away from wives and family and friends. So if you happen to come to one of the shows and you see some of us crowded around a computer watching a flying Delorean, know that it might have been a hard day . . . but we’re gonna be ok.

-Ryan Gregg