The Lincoln Pinnacle Bank American Legion baseball team is on the ninth day of a road trip that started in Casper, Wyo., last week for the Northwest Regional and has now taken it to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the American Legion World Series. Outfielder Trisden Williams spoke by phone on Tuesday night from his Casper, Wyo., hotel room about what life has been like for 16 teenage boys on the road living a dream.

You get $28 a day for meal money, but not everybody on the team has big-league appetites yet, or has been stingy. What's the weirdest thing somebody has spent their extra cash on?

"We went to the video arcade at the Casper Mall, and some guys got plastic swords so they could have a sword fight. We got some blow-up boxing gloves so we could box, too."

What's life like in Casper, Wyo.?

"There is not a lot to do, so we just hang out at the hotel. There is a forest fire about 20 minutes away and they're evacuating people some places, so they don't want us out much. We're staying at a Holiday Inn that is nice though, and people are really hospitable. We have four guys in a room with only two twin beds though, so we rotate with one guy sleeping on a roll-away bed and one guy on the floor."

How do you kill time between games and travel?

"We just joke around a lot and do a few practical jokes. We got (assistant coach Troy Kantor) pretty good. We got in his room and flipped his mattress over, turned the heat way up, put the T.V. volume on full blast and set his alarm for 3 a.m."

When you traveled to the regional you flew to Denver before taking a bus to Casper. Any good stories from the flight?

"Two guys (Bob Last and Jim Kraus) had never flown before, so we were trying to get them all nervous about flying. They were holding the barf bags before we took off, but it turned out fine."