Champagne Sunday
2016 All In Tour
So we headed out from Dave’s place in Oakland to try to get to our hotel reservation in Atascadero that night and avoid Super Bowl traffic on Sunday.ย ย Around 1:00 in the morning, we rolled in for gas in Gonzales, CA. We return to the RV to be greeted by a dead battery. We call...
2016 All In Tour
Summed up best by Jared, “There is no fun side to this.” Still no luck with the generator, even with the new part AND taking the whole thing out. There are several more details, but, quite frankly, I’m tired of writing about it. I’m also writing this before the day is totally over, so maybe...
2016 All In Tour
“I get by with a little help from my friends” – The Beatles Refueling in the CA sunshine at the cleanest and kindest laundromat I’ve ever been to, things began to look brighter. The generator part we needed was at the auto parts store, the laundry was getting done, and I got to take a...
2016 All In Tour
To say that our day was bad, didn’t go according to plan and had little to no happy ending would be an understatement. So I won’t even give this day the satisfaction of my well-chosen words. I will, instead, recount the events of the very end of the day and wee early minutes of day...
2016 All In Tour
Sometimes, when it feels like everything is falling apart around you, it’s best to take a page out of a two year old’s handbook… When we were stopped to fix the generator at 9:00 this morning, the dawn turned to afternoon quickly, and there was no progress. What began as a fairly simple fix, soon...
2016 All In Tour
Generator Your silence has me worried. Did we upset you? Are you being passive aggressive? Are you needing something new? You have sent us on wild goose chases For tools to caress your pieces off. We’ve regrouped like a poorly attended family reunion, To listen to your last breaths and coughs. This game is a...
2016 All In Tour
Medford, OR “Hey Jared, how’s everything going out there?” “Basically, I just keep breaking things for Kim to fix.” And this was the progression of Day 14. We needed to do dishes, but didn’t have water. We needed to cook food, but we were out of propane. The generator had stopped working, so we couldn’t...
2016 All In Tour
“You stole my ‘Oregon’ sky, and I can’t hear nothin’, cuz all that I’m hearin’ is you.” Having no gig this evening, we decided to take our time getting out of Cottage Grove. We began our morning at Buster’s Breakfast house (the one place open!) and then found an amazing park to let Rudyard run,...
2016 All In Tour
Cottage Grove, OR. We almost missed it because so many people were wearing camouflage… But, we finally found our venue, The Axe and Fiddle, and the beer was cold, the food tremendous, and the hospitality warm. They even let Rudyard hang outย for the show, during which he insisted on dancing to almost every song! Kim...
2016 All In Tour
Space: The final frontier.ย Ok…so that’s a bit dramatic. But, here, on day 11, we needed a little. Kim has a wonderful connection in the hospitality industry that hooked us up with two luxury suites, full kitchens included, for cheaper rates than a Motel 6! And, the rate is good for 3 months! Maybe we’ll...
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