Peregrinations » travel http://www.halpawluk.com/blog Road tripping Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Summertime in the (2nd) city. Again. http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/2009/08/summertime-in-the-2nd-city-again/ http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/2009/08/summertime-in-the-2nd-city-again/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:12:35 +0000 Hal http://www.halpawluk.com/blog/?p=210 Look at that crowd for the Pat Benatar and Blondie concert at Ravinia on Sunday!  (The background music is the opening group, The Donnas). [links open in a new window]  [clip is 24 seconds long]

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Incredible!

Everyone brings a picnic and libations of their choice then sets up on the grass.  The setups have gotten pretty competitive.   Those are real candles, folks.  And when they burned out later, there were replacements!

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The only potential problem was a 60% chance of rain but it missed us.

Security, on the other hand, didn’t miss me and my camera so all I’ve got is a few seconds of Pat Benatar on stage [18 sec]

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and just a sound clip for Blondie [14 sec]

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It was all terrific!

And Monday was another Botanic Garden freebie, the latin sounds of Fernandez and Kimball.  This is slightly longer than the usual clip and will take longer to load but worth waiting for.  [1m 19 sec]

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Chau.

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This is the beginning of a new one, and I’ll just start with a picture of what I’ll be leaving on Thursday, shot from in front of Joe’s place:

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And I won’t have the nifty old GMC van, but will instead be riding in a soccer-mom-type minivan.  Here it is in front of my house [which survived a year's lease to four college students in terrific shape, probably because they're all girls :-)]

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Should be fine.  Has a new bike rack

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and room for a sleeping bag.

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And my ride buddy seems to rarin’ to go.

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First stop is Denver, for dinner with niece Cyrina (who has floor space for my sleeping bag) and nephew Jason (who’s driving in from Boulder).  Should be fun – I’m rarin’ to go, too :-)

PS:  At some point I may at least re-post the pictures and videos from my last blog – hate to not have any record.

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