Rain Rain Go Away

And it did.

We had about an hour & a half of heavy rain when we left Cleveland.

That's been it.

Who would've thought that visiting Chicago at the end of September we would get 75 -85 degree sunny weather!

Technical difficulties

       So, I couldn't put our pictures on the blog in Cleveland -- cause I left the cord in the car!!! 

(we valet parked).

                      Just like at Woodstock, they don't allow pictures in most of the museum.

                      These were taken in the lobby & outside.

I don't know how well you can read this but Johny Cash spent 1/2 million dollars to retrofit this bus for touring.

Truckin'

I can't believe the number of trucks on the highway. Probably 1/2 (or more) of the vehicles on I-80 / 90 are tractor trailers and a good number of them are double and even triple trailers. Guess that trucks do move the country!

Rock & Rollllll Hoochie Coo

Lawdy mama light my fuse!!!!

OK I'm not sure if Rick Derringer is in the hall, but that's a great rock & roll song.

Everybody here says Cleveland Rocks 

We spent about 4 hours at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It was fun. Funny though - it took three years for the Beatles to get in????  4 years for the Stones???? Who votes for the inductees????

If you go, skip the food. We ate at the cafe at Woodstock & that was very good. This place was maybe a D+ . 

Still haven't seen any red bearded men in our travels, however, while watching the HBO series "Bored to Death" the star's friend has a red beard!!!

Continuing the musical connection our waiter tonight was named Elvis!

Pleasant Sunday

Today's been a relaxing day. Went for a brief walk. Watched the Patriots beat Buffalo - not really relaxing - they make it interesting.
                                    Karen was happy cause the Cowboys won.
                                    Going out for pizza.
                                    We leave early tomorrow to start day  # 4 -
 Cleveland & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

I came upon a child of god

He was walking along the road and I asked him where are you going and this he told me
                                        "I am going down to Yasgur's farm"

(apologies to Joni Mitchell if the lyrics are not exact)











So 41 years later, Marlene and i joined him. Here's a picture of me.

In 1969 he was joined by 400 - 500 thousand others for 3 days of music. It ended up being a temporary city that was the third largest in New York state for three days. It's a little hard to imagine the mud & stuff cause now there's a lovely museum, outdoor concert shell, and beautiful landscaped grounds. There are lots of pictures, videos & commentaries from attendees, locals, and performing artists. They have the "Hog farm commune" bus that you can sit in & watch a mini movie (lots of beads as curtains) and a flowery Volkswagen bug. It's definitely a fun place to visit. One minor irritant to me was that they didn't allow pictures. On the other hand, we were very fortunate that while waiting in line to purchase tickets, someone gave us free tickets - they were obviously in  a Woodstock frame of mind! (saved us $26).

  One interesting tidbit is that a 3 day ticket was $21 - in today's money = $127.74.
      Quite a bargain considering the prices of one concert today!

Finally, one of my young idealistic revolutionary illusions was shattered when I learned that the Jefferson Airplane, who promoted themselves as revolutionary anti capitalists, would not perform until they got paid. This was back in the day when banks had much fewer hours, but somehow the promoters were able to get a cashier's check & they performed on Sunday morning. Oh well. Still like their music.  

According to Plan

The plan was to leave around 2.
Of course, that didn't happen. We left around 3. Still, the Garmin said that we should arrive in Liberty NY around 7:15. But, the Garmin wasn't considering a couple of traffic jams, rest stops, and for some unknown reason sending us off the highway through a Connecticut city at rush hour. The AAA directions were different, but the Garmin has this seductive feminine voice saying "come this way big boy". OK, it doesn't actually say that & it isn't very seductive, but anyway you get the picture. I followed the Garmin. WRONG! Actually it only cost us about 20 minutes, but all the combinations caused us to arrive around 8:30. Not bad overall. Marlene had made us healthy turkey sandwiches; we ate, watched a little TV & got a good night's sleep.
Day 2 begins - Woodstock Concert @ Bethel Woods Museum - peace, love & music ahead.

On the road again

Here it is - the day we've been planning for months - today we begin our odyssey - our long wandering event filled adventure. I had a dream 2 nights ago that I would have to share a room with a large burly red headed and bearded man - looked like a Viking but may have been a "hippie" - I'll be looking for that man - but hopefully will NOT be sharing a room with him!