Bonnaroo!

(a week later.)

Wednesday night, 10:30 - Eck arrives from the Sox game (2-1 loss) at my house, chats with the parents a bit since I'm obviously not packed yet
Thursday, 4:30am - Eck and KB arrive in Paducah, KY.
Thursday, 5:30am - Eck, KB and Jared take a refreshing plunge off the cliffs of Lake Something-or-other, KY.
Thursday, 12pm, after grocery shopping and meeting up with alumni Kobe + brother, arrive in the vicinity of Manchester, TN and proceed to wait in Bonnaroo traffic.
Thursday, 11pm - enter the Bonnaroo campgrounds. 11 hours of traffic. This made us both really frustrated and amused at the same time. Mostly relieved.
Friday, 12am - sprint back to the campsite in monsoon-style rain after failing to retrieve a schedulebook from Centeroo.
SLEEP.


I won't bore you with all the details of the shows, but basically...

Friday shows:
Kaki King is incredibly talented.
Animal Collectice was amazing.
Galactic + Trombone Shorty was tight.
Al Green - "Can I get a witness!" "Them safety folks in the yellow shirts out there - I'm already safe! These people come to love me, not hurt me!"
TV on the Radio - I was kinda drunk, I think. Fun show, though.
DAVID BYRNE PLAYED BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE IN A TUTU. <3 href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59i4pLdTNcFU2diw1tFGtsPqJnF3lUUIW4azcGSKpdL-CM6JUKHMfHK0O5yW_kNo93pcm7L87ny5MfbvpY07555WIqOmPsWRI49xgcQrHMl3bOREdSySFJ6xz-Cb3x92uIpwBQpGiw-aW/s1600-h/Bonnaroo+005.jpg">Del McCoury Band :-)
Wilco!! great show.
Bruce Springsteen...wow. Fantastic. Jared was so giddy the entire time. "IT'S TOO FUCKIN HOT FOR SANTA!" - He played "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town." Nice.
Tried to stay up for Moe... no success. Once again, Eck stayed out.



Sunday shows:
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - really fun. Partially due to intoxication.
Brett Dennen was good, but he opened with Ain't No Reason and we missed it :-(
Andrew Bird: naptime (I stayed up for Nervous Tick Motion and then half-dozed for the rest)


Snoop Dogg. Um..."Fuck the police! Show your love for Tupac!" ..he sang Gin & Juice. We had to get a good spot for Phish. We missed Neko Case because of this, unfortunately.
Phish - the feet killing us by this point, Jared and I sat in the back watching unbelievable amounts of glowsticks being tossed up throughout the show. It was a pretty damn good show. The Boss came on and jammed with Trey for a while. That was tight.


2am, Monday morning - depart. Karen passes out.
2:30 - Huddle House. A garden omelette, then more passing out.
sometime that morning - arrive at Paducah, Eck departs for Louisville en route to Pittsburgh for more Phish.
Pass out for like 5 hours.
Monday: Hang out with the Wynne's...and THIS LITTLE GUY:

Too adorable for words.

Tuesday: return home via Amtrak at 6:30am & pick up a Miss Anne Bayerle at the Art Institute for a lovely visit involving coffee & chatting, Ecuador & Madagascar photo-sharing, Chinese pastries with Kyle Lipinski, Zoe Lukens and Sam somebody, and passing out while watching Elizabethtown (I don't really recommend it).

In other news, the ol' plantar fascia is really cramping my style with the summer training schedj. I'm not a fan. Lots of weights, abs, and cross training. Wearing running shoes everywhere. This sucks. I hope all of you are having better success.

Friendly reminder about the summer running calendar.... Share your miles with us! Your training can't be going worse than mine!

Later gators.