What did Winter Storm Xyler make you do?
It made us load up the car at 3 a.m. on Friday in Moab, Utah, and — after a stop to look at the stars from a vantage point in Arches National Park — drive until 4 a.m. this morning — 1300 miles back to Madison, Wisconsin.
We listened to the Grateful Dead channel on the satellite radio the whole way (just about, so it seemed). That felt like the right car-driving music for the occasion.
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back home
When I woke up this morning — in a bed, in a bed — that's the song that was in my head.
I'm so glad to be back in Madison with this vantage point on the Xyler snowfall.
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"But are the grateful?"
I refuse to acknowledge the existence of named winter storms. Nope. Just won't do it. You talking to me? "Xyler"? Is that some sort of.. organic compound?
"Xyler"? Is that some sort of.. organic compound?
Tyler has transitioned to non-binary.
I figured you were on the road. We drove to California again this week for my son's 50th, Back to Tucson tomorrow. 1300 miles straight is a lot. We did 1050 last week in 3 days. That left me with a sore calf for 2 days after we got home.
Getting too old for this. Yeas ago, I drove from CA to Chicago straight through a couple of times. Not now.
Nothing like your own bed. It really is one of the bummers of travel - the bed situation. Nothing feels as comfy as the bed at home.
With the storm coming to the upper Midwest, wouldn't you prefer to be more south?
Got photos?
Nonstop Grateful Dead satellite radio, a fate worse than death.
Xyler? oh no. The next baby boy name craze.
welcome home Professor Althouse!
DAMN YOU for bringing all this snow with you!!! :)
If you missed seeing Dead Horse Point State Park, turn around and go back.
...after a stop to look at the stars from a vantage point in Arches National Park...
Ah, so envious.
Every night I feel the longing to see the night sky in its full glory. Instead of having to travel far away from home to be able to do that. Where I live I have to satisfy myself with the brightest stars.
I named this current winter storm forecast: "Enough Already!"
Did you hike around Fisher towers? That is one cool hike. It's like staring up at Gaudi's architecture in rock.
Fleeing from a winter storm and listening to the Grateful Dead is similar to having your ears pecked out by crows.
Last freeze date in central Ohio is May 15.
"after a stop to look at the stars from a vantage point in Arches National Park"
Hope you had a good view to the south. 3am this time of year provides the best view of the galactic center from the northern hemisphere.
"What did Winter Storm Xyler make you do?"
Nothing. Sorry.
Well, that and reminding self not to move to Minneapolis, Chicago, etc.
I didn't even know about Xyler until now. And I'll have no reaction. I am however happy that the air blows cold in my car.
I know you're probably not a capital "D" Deadhead, but the idea you could be fills me with joy for no good reason. Now go see one of thr many Dead-affiliated shows and give us a report. We were blown away by Dead & Company last summer.
Wait, you drove back home for a snowstorm?
Blogger Paco Wové said..."I refuse to acknowledge the existence of named winter storms. Nope. Just won't do it."
They need pageantry to deflect from the fact that can't predict them.
Satellite radio has a channel that's completely Grateful Dead?
You idiots! How many times must you be told? Weather is NOT climate!
(...unless it serves the narrative.)
"Nothing like your own bed. It really is one of the bummers of travel - the bed situation. Nothing feels as comfy as the bed at home."
The passenger seat of the car was also my bed for about 12 different naps before I made it home to real bed. Car sleeping is great if you can do it, because it breaks up the time, but it's hard to know if it adds up to anything like a night's sleep.
Going Home
I'm Going Home
Down Home Girl
Green Green Grass Of Home
2000 Light Years From Home
America Drinks & Goes Home
The passenger seat of the car was also my bed for about 12 different naps before I made it home to real bed.
I trust that's a fully reclining front passenger seat.
Rear seats are made for children and legless amputees.
The other day, I was listening to Amazon music on my phone at work. It recommended a compilation CD by The Clash. I started listening and then took a look at the track list and found out that apparently it was everything that The Clash ever recorded. I think it was something like 138 songs. I decided that would be an overdose and switched to something else. I can’t imagine listening to the Grateful Dead for 25 hours straight. Overdose, for sure!
"With the storm coming to the upper Midwest, wouldn't you prefer to be more south?"
We were on a mission to save Arthur.
But we were also about ready to come home and we didn't want to be stuck on the wrong side of the storm and needing to drive through or into it.
I'm very happy to watch snow fall. Happy to watch from inside the house and happy to go out and walk around in it. It's much better than rain, especially cold rain.
("Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life/Run me out in the cold rain and snow.")
If Sirius would add an audio book channel,. I'd subscribe.
We listened to VD Hansen's "Case for Trump" driving over. We'll listen too the new Tom Clancy novel that is supposed to have a lot about Chinese cyber war. It is supposed to be technically good, which is what Tom Clancy got right in his novels when he was alive.
Wow, a Spring storm like this would have induced me to the exact opposite reaction- I would have stayed in Utah until Monday.
We were on a mission to save Arthur.
About 1,600 years too late I suspect.
BTW, how is that storm name pronounced? I once took a call from someone who insisted his name was Egg-xavier.
I find it impossible to car sleep. Can't do it while driving, and feel too guilty as a passenger.
1300 miles in a single drive is tough. I once drove from Oak Ridge, TN to Boston (to drop off my sister) and then back from Boston to Danbury, CT in a single run, which is about 1300 miles. The last 500 of that driving was in an intense snow storm in the New England parts of the journey (my sister had to get back for exam week at Harvard). I was a much younger man then- no way I could do more than about 800 miles in a day.
"I know you're probably not a capital "D" Deadhead, but the idea you could be fills me with joy for no good reason. Now go see one of thr many Dead-affiliated shows and give us a report. We were blown away by Dead & Company last summer."
I listened the Dead in college a lot. Never owned any of the albums but could name 4 of them that I heard many many times, and I've gone to more than one Dead concert, back in the early 70s, at least one was at the Fillmore East in 1970. Maybe 2 at the Fillmore East and maybe one in Ann Arbor. So it is evocative music for me, but it's not what I'd pick for myself. Especially the singing. How can they get away with not singing better than that? Is that part of the charm? I don't mind hearing Jerry sing, but the rest of them... what the hell?!!
drive until 4 a.m. this morning — 1300 miles back to Madison, Wisconsin.
Brings back the days of straight through 1400 mile drives from Logan, Utah to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. I wouldn't want to do it now, 500 miles Logan to Denver is long enough.
I would have hunkered down in Moab for a week or two longer but that's me.
San Francisco to Seattle was the longest I ever drove nonstop. 800+ miles or so. And I was so wired I couldn't sleep when I got home.
I listened [to] the Dead in college a lot.
Will the Sixties never die, gracefully or otherwise? Using the Dead as a moniker for that band's actual title is like referring to the members of the Beatles by Christain name alone. It implies an entirely onesided jejune familiarity. Professors emeriti should not write like teenyboppers breathlessly penning missives to the editors of Tiger Beat.
Hunker down in Moab +1.
From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 165 babies born with the first name Xyler in the United States.
Definitely Jerry was the best singer and the heart of their music. Bob Weir was not that bad but always sounded like he was singing through a cardboard tube.
I never really listened to the Dead until about five years ago but Brokedown Palace and the album "American Beauty" are some of my favorites now.
"Fare thee well, fare thee well, I loved you more than words can tell" can still make me cry.
Q. What do you call a winter storm in the spring?
A. Xyler.
Xylerol is what is prescribed to parents who want to name their kids
odd names.
The Zappa's "cheeked their meds"
"If Sirius would add an audio book channel..."
It wouldn't work very well except for poetry and short stories.
Just use Audible and have a car with Apple CarPlay.
You have to be able to begin at the beginning and pause when you stop the car!
1300 miles is a lot of driving in one day! I hope you took turns at the wheel. We once drove from Laguna Beach to Portland (1,000 mi) only stopping for lunch. My wife's job was to keep me awake- which she did until she fell asleep.
"Wow, a Spring storm like this would have induced me to the exact opposite reaction- I would have stayed in Utah until Monday."
We'd been out for a while and were ready to come home. If we'd lengthened the trip to avoid the storm, it would have been the end of Arthur. As I said, we were on a mission to save Arthur. We could have declined the mission, but we did not.
Poorly timed post for me. I'm struggling to decide whether to do a 900 mile drive tomorrow to go to my brother-in-law's mother's funeral. Was on the verge of talking myself out of it because I'm getting too old for it. Then your post showed up and you're older than me.
I'd have to do it solo though as my wife is already out of town.
What is "Arthur"?
"Wow, a Spring storm like this would have induced me to the exact opposite reaction- I would have stayed in Utah until Monday."
Advice from people who don't like snow storms. Though this one, not surprisingly, looks like it will be a dud.
Isn't "Xyler" Greek for "Woody"? Or more literally "Wooder"
Driving east from California be aware you are going to cross 8-9000 ft altitudes and that is when you begin to see things that are not there and become another statistic of single car accidents.
looks like it will be a dud.
a dud-- a phony! A Xyler-phony !!
"Definitely Jerry was the best singer and the heart of their music. Bob Weir was not that bad but always sounded like he was singing through a cardboard tube."
Bob Weir was fun to watch sing, because he was so enthusiastic. It was funny. But on the radio, it's more like... why is he singing?
Compare Bob Weir singing "El Paso" to the famous version of the song by Marty Robbins. Here's an example of Weir singing the song, but probably not the version I heard in the car.
This song has many verses. It's an elaborate story, all leading up to the heartbreaking last line, "One little kiss and Felina, goodbye." It has a big emotional impact as sung by Robbins. The character singing the song has risked his life to come back to El Paso to see Felina again, and he's been shot, but he gets to see his beloved one last time, to be kissed and then to die in her arms. But you can consider this a ludicrous cheeseball story. Okay. I get that. But Weir (in the version I heard in the car) sang that last line as if it were nothing, like he was just dashing out for a minute, as if "One little kiss and Felina, goodbye" might be followed by another line, something like, "I'll be right back, do you need anything at the store?"
"If Sirius would add an audio book channel..."
It wouldn't work very well except for poetry and short stories.
Just use Audible and have a car with Apple CarPlay.
You have to be able to begin at the beginning and pause when you stop the car!
Good point. That's what we do. The blue tooth radio connection plays the book through the speakers.
The cell phone also comes through the radio but the quality of the call is not too good. Yesterday, we were driving along and I get a call from Chase bank about a debit card transaction, We'd been in CA for several days and were here last week. They were worried about fraud. The call went on for a half hour and I'm driving. Finally, the bank guy said we'd have to finish the call later with better sound quality.
We get back to the airbandb and I see a text message on the phone. Did I buy a prescription at a pharmacy ? Yes.
OK, that was the end of it. I don't understand the long call hassle. It was interesting that every transaction was OK until a pharmacy, which happened to be the pharmacy ing the building where my office was for 20 years.
Another skirmish in the unending drug war, I guess.
@Jay Vogt
You need to do it.
It a burden to go, but it's also a burden not to have gone. The second burden must be carried for the rest of your life. The first one is only a burden while you're doing it. Crank up The Grateful Dead and drive safely.
Make America Grateful Again
"I'd have to do it solo though as my wife is already out of town."
Solo driving can be easier. You don't have to worry about another person's comfort and you can play whatever you want on the radio. I recommend audiobooks, because they really transform the sense of time. Music tends to put you in the eternal now, which can be good too. I like books because they're the length of the trip and you can feel that you're traveling through the book (and even remember the book as the landscape).
Bob Weir did like him some Marty Robbins. For cheesy though, you've got to go with his version of "Big Iron"
"Yesterday, we were driving along and I get a call from Chase bank..."
I highly recommend notifying the credit card company about your trip in advance.
@ AA
You need to do it.
. . . . . gee thanks. ;)
Sirius is the best for driving! Especially in western Nebraska.
I was going to build a fire in the fireplace, last of the season, if we had a good snow, but not looking like it will happen.
There's a pretty good Bob Weir documentary out there called "The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir."
I reviewed it here
Truckin'
What will they name the next couple of storms?
tcrosse said..."Xyler"? Is that some sort of.. organic compound?
There are three kinds of "Xyler:" ortho, meta, and para.
It a burden (to go), but it's also a burden not to (have gone).
The second burden must be carried for the rest of your life.
we're saving that one. Thanks, Double A
tcrosse said...What will they name the next couple of storms?
Styler, Benzler, and Toluer, are posibilities.
" How can they get away with not singing better than that?"
This, from a self-confessed Bob Dylan fan!
W
Who is Arthur?
I enjoy the Grateful Dead quite a lot, many songs are fun to play along with and sing, but, man, those guys couldn't sing for shit, especially live. Copious drug taking by much of the audience would account for how so few noticed this at the time.
"Just use Audible and have a car with Apple CarPlay. "
BTW- if your car doesn't have a touch screen or voice activated sync you can update by replacing your stereo unit with an aftermarket receiver. Kenwood (for example) makes aftermarket units with BT for Android/Apple sync (voice activated phone, text & media), navigation, Sirius/XM, and the usual & AM/FM bands. Depending on what you want to spend and which features you want...there are affordable receivers out there.
We installed Kenwood receivers in our two older pickups. One had a perfectly good nav unit, but no Bluetooth or Sirius.
BTW- I'm typing this from the terrace...it's 80 degrees...of course youse guys will have the last laugh in July when it's triple digits hereabouts...but after a looong wet winter & spring...I'm loving the temps this week.
"Who is Arthur?"
No clue. I googled it but it didn't help. Apparently, it's a secret.
"Yesterday, we were driving along and I get a call from Chase bank..."
I highly recommend notifying the credit card company about your trip in advance.
I very rarely hear from a credit card company as we go back and forth all the time. I don't recall getting any feedback from using the debit card in Europe. Once I got a call when my youngest was using gas card in Arizona when I still lived in CA.
In fact, a teenaged cousin who was housesitting for us and was (unknown to me) a druggie, ran up $1500 on a gas card with a $300 credit limit. I would have appreciated a call then. Plus they would not delete the charges.
I thought it was significant that the only transaction that triggered this was a pharmacy,.
What is "Arthur"?
The apex of Dudley Moore's career.
Althouse said "I like books because they're the length of the trip and you can feel that you're traveling through the book (and even remember the book as the landscape)."
This is especially true if you're driving well known, featureless interstates. Sirius' Classic Radio or books keep me more engaged on a long drive than music. Nice to know I'm not the only one who remembers a book as landscape.
Sounds like a mountain bike adventure.
Someone needs to tell the Weather Channel the story of the Boy Who Cried "Wolf". (Of course, that boy didn't get paid based on clicks, or the story might've had a very different ending and/or moral.)
Well, you just might get some sleep tonight.
I don't wear deadhead-ism on my sleeve like I once did, but I'm a veteran of 45 GD concerts from 1982 - 1995. A 2nd generation deadhead (or would that be 3rd?) The first one was the best. The last one was the worst.
Ann Althouse said... How can they get away with not singing better than that? Is that part of the charm?
Everyone in audience too busy singing along to care
Last time I drove to Alaska and tried to get fuel in British Columbia the cards wouldn't work. Had to call the banks and tell them I was traveling out of the country. Personally, I'm glad they look for unusual charges but it was a hassle at the time.
No stop for a nap? I can't imagine driving for 25 hours straight. We top out at about 850 miles per trip, but I guess we also drive with 5 kids. I don't think the kids would make that much difference on how much further we could travel in one go though.
I'm guessing Arthur is plant or tree.
Agreed itches. Arthur needed to be trnasplanted.
Furthest I've driven non-stop is Madison to Santa Barbara. Three people in a VW Rabbit.
Y and Z are coming down next. Damn Global Cooling.
The Dead were quite pleasing studio-album singers for a stretch, I'd say from Workingman's, when they started putting in real effort, until Wake of the Flood, after which the voices started to wane. Brokedown Palace, from the middle of that stretch, is a fine example of competent Dead studio singing. Attics of My Life, from the same LP, was little else but good studio singing, and they pulled it off well. I don't know how many takes those good studio vocal tracks required (don't really care), but I don't slag them as bad singers. Live performances were a whole nother story, even when the voices were young and strong, but the circumstances and objectives were also way different. I completely agree that Weir was a lot of fun to watch.
Althouse said, "Compare Bob Weir singing "El Paso" to the famous version of the song by Marty Robbins. Here's an example of Weir singing the song, but probably not the version I heard in the car."
That's even worse than many of the Grateful Dead songs where he is the lead vocalist (like I think, "Truckin" and "Sugar Magnolia"). He sounds like he has no breath left at the end of each phrase and he doesn't put much emotion into it.
The best parts of that "El Paso" video are when Jerry Garcia comes in with the harmonies.
LOVE the Marty Robbins version of El Paso: link
“Nonstop Grateful Dead satellite radio, a fate worse than death.”
Agreed, I would have been Gratefully Dead rather than endure that.
I'm thinking Arthur is the avocado tree? It will be interesting/depressing to see what will become of my flower beds after the below freezing temperatures tonight.
" Especially the singing. How can they get away with not singing better than that? Is that part of the charm? I don't mind hearing Jerry sing, but the rest of them... what the hell?!!"
Yeah, but it's all the music in between that really matters. They did manage some vocal magic at various points but the Beatles they are not.
That said getting John Mayer to play lead guitar has been a great decision post-Jerry. And Bobby has gotten better with age (on a good day). And of course Jerry said:
“We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
They kept the idea of the Acid Test going all through the 80's and 90's, exposing suburban kids to something most people considered long gone. We vagabonded around America in the 80's because of the Dead, had many adventures and met interesting people. So for that I'm forever in their debt.
Now I want to go to Moab.
Tcrosse asks: "Xyler"? Is that some sort of.. organic compound?
I think it's a polysaccharide. ;-)
It's a musical instrument/rotatory telephone. The xylerphone
Will Cate "Well, you just might get some sleep tonight." I see what you did there LOL.
I don't understand this type of travel, so many miles, so much time, non-stop. You're retired. Stop. Enjoy life. Take a look around. Spend a couple of nights in some interesting towns or historic hotels along the way. No wonder you don't like to travel.
I have been talking to my wife about taking one of two long driving tours in the next couple of years, either the Lewis and Clark Trail from St. Louis to Astoria, OR, or the Oregon Trail from Independence, MO, to Oregon City, OR. I would probably take 10 days to 2 weeks for each trip out, driving no more than a few hours each day, frequent stops at historic points, and staying in little towns and old hotels along the way, Then a different route back across the US, say down the Pacific coast and pick up I-40 back to TN. No rush. This is what retirement is for. No need to hurry anywhere. Lots of great stuff to see and enjoy.
My husband and I took countless road trips before buying an RV and an RV suited us perfectly, as we didn't like motels & eating out all the time. And we had a dog.
Got a Temptations CD the other day but not sure I want to drive to it. It positively compels me to dance. Can I dance and drive at the same time? Hmmm.
The Dead's harmonies were pretty awful but when you listen to the Sirius channel you are mostly listening to recordings of live shows, and most of those are not professionally mixed, so the bad parts sound worse. The early 70's studio albums have some good singing and Jerry had a great voice, before he became a junkie. Everything GD post 1979 is shite.
Drove from Tacoma, WA to Bismarck, ND straight through one time. Was low on cash. I could afford to spend a night in a Motel 6 or buy enough gas to make it to my own bed. But not for both.
Big fun.
She had a dream in which Irma Arthur-Bascom appeared to her and told her that she and Meade must save Arthur by driving quickly to Utah and then, when the moment was right, returning again quickly. Not understanding any of it, but longing for a road trip, the Althouse household hit the road.
Why do you assume we didn’t stay for days and use nice hotels? Do you know when we left? I kept that secret. We stayed in Boulder for a few days and stayed inside the park at Mesa Verde. Went to Pagosa Springs.
Birches said...
“No stop for a nap? I can't imagine driving for 25 hours straight.”
Stopped in Silverthorne for coffee and blogging. Stopped at a rest stop in Iowa to sleep for 2 hours.
“I'm guessing Arthur is plant or tree.”
Yes, as Rick guessed, it’s the avocado tree(s) Meade grew from 6 avocado pits and has nurtured for 10 years. It’s ten feet tall and lives indoors in cold weather only. It was out on the deck for the warm weather and the temp is dropping to 27 tonight.
The name Arthur is understandable to old Mad Magazine fans like me and Meade.
Sounds like a great trip.
"It was out on the deck for the warm weather and the temp is dropping to 27 tonight."
Leaving it (him?) on the deck in April while you're away? That's living dangerously.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/11/five-musicians-with-missing-and-damaged-fingers.html
--1. Jerome John Garcia
(August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)
Better known as Jerry to legions of Deadheads, Garcia, an avid folk and bluegrass enthusiast, was best known for his singing, songwriting, and lead guitar playing with the Grateful Dead for three decades.
When Garcia was four years old, he and his family were vacationing in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Central California. A young Garcia was tasked with steadying wood, while his older brother Tiff chopped. Garcia inadvertently placed his hand in the path of the falling axe. As a result Garcia lost two-thirds of his right middle finger.
Garcia’s accident didn’t discourage him. As a child he would brag about the missing digit to children in his neighborhood. He would go on to become one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead and play in numerous side projects including Legion of Mary, Old and in the Way, and the Jerry Garcia Band.--
The name Arthur is understandable to old Mad Magazine fans like me and Meade.
I'm an old Mad Magazine fan but don't remember Arthur. :-(
glad they made it back in time-- Sir Thomas Malory wont have to write a sequel
So if Hitler started the war during which Jerome was conceived, how cannot Hitler be, in part, responsible for Jerry?
Well, because even in theory any butterfly flapping its damn wings can influence events worldwide in ways unpredictable, the fact still remains innocence is assumed in decent societies until guilt is proven in puplic (public) 9 forums with the knowledge an unbiased, forensic accounting will take place to determine via pristine process all is well if always the process is to be something to be considered to be something that is improving, all the time.
“I'm an old Mad Magazine fan but don't remember Arthur. :-(”
Old = 1960s
Look it up. You’ll find the answer easily.
Columbo must be Kavanaugh, or are we in command lacking factual knowledge to make Hardin proud.
Oh, I believe you, Althouse [about Arthur]. I was just disappointed that I don't remember it. I may have missed that issue. Or maybe by that time I had discovered boys.
For reasons I won't explain, I'll just say I completely understand traveling very far to protect a plant.
Was Arthur's last name Veeblefetzer?
The grateful dead aren't the be all end all of rick and roll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jealousy
I guess I failed.
Code words at that test.
You know me, I'll be failing awayingly, as Gram Parson's foretold.
For the MAD Magazine crowd, remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOvjvWqQaQ
Drove me crazy for a couple weeks back then. Came with the magazine. Spy vs. Spy.
Althouse needs to pay me to talk about my dental history, and the guty of manishkind.
$400,000.
One of my favorite features of MAD Magazine was the satirical lyrics to the Broadway musicals. They were hilarious. My sister and I would sometimes sing them.
Good for you. Personally, I'm not into driving all night, etc. and I'm not 60! Our driving days past midnight are over. We stay at Motels or if we have an RV/Camper just pull over. What's the point of being uncomfortable?
We're not retired, but we're not that far away, and there's no reason for us to drive more than 500 miles a day. We're not poor college students. But peeps can do whatever they want.
I love me some Beautiful River Music
I don't mind road trips, even 1300 mile ones, but I prefer doing it in two days rather than one. Personally, I would not rush home for a tree, even a named one, if it meant being in a snow storm after I got home. But that's what is great about America, having so many choices and the freedom to do what one wants within reason.
As to my own travels, I will be driving back to MN from the Florida Panhandle on Wed/Thu of this coming week, after all of the snow is gone.
Next up, when it rains and they can’t predict it: “Rainfall Phillis will strike the area between 3 and 4:30 pm bringing a new spate of woes...”
What happened to Winter Storm:
Angus
Bottachelli
Codswallop
Dingleberry
Ebola
Fracksister
Gonad
...
Althouse - I agree with you on the quality of the vocals for the vast majority of Dead songs. Always bugged me too and really gets in the way of enjoying the music itself which is usually pretty interesting.
Maybe too much acid with Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
Ann- Phil was the worst singer, and mercifully he didn't sing (much) after a while; but no, if you’re looking for Håkan Hagegård quality singing the Dead are not your destination.
On my drive From Amherst to Buffalo a couple weekends ago I did a typical stupid deadhead thing- I played about 15 versions of Scarlet Begonias in a row, all from ‘77 and ‘78....
The guy above is right- you should try and see Dead and Company- they are playing at Wrigley in Mid June.
Tyler has transitioned to non-binary.
Oh, no! You don't suppose all storm names will now have to be sexually indeterminate, do you?
Will we now be stuck with "Typhoon Leslie", "Winter Storm "Dakota", or "Hurricane Pat"?
Mountain Man what you are planning is a very good thing! My late husband and I took two two-week road trips, just as you described (although we also had camping and backpacking equipment in our rental van, as well as a couple of nights at the homes of friends and relatives). We had such a good time, we had a loose itinerary but stayed in motels and campgrounds along the way and were pretty flexible except for a couple of days where we had reservations that could not be changed. We were planning a third two week trip to the Pacific Northwest, but he died before that happened. Also if you do this keep a "journal" even if it is just a small notepad, so you can remember where you went and what you did. I made nice scrapbooks for both of the big trips we took, I still enjoy looking at them. Do it now while you can.
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