Notes From Up High

Been a while since I fooled around here. I’m juggling a new apartment, a cool job, a budding personal relationship, and tempered excitement preparing for the long drive and party with Phish during Festival 8 in Indio, California.

Once Cali was raised from the dead from the now infamous Phish map, I very quickly spent a tiny portion of my new income and purchased my Phish ticket and car pass. In doing so, I was expecting to hear from many more friends who would make the trip.

Unfortunately, silence….nobody I knew would be coming out. Being in a new place with new friends, I was hopeful that I may be able to cultivate new Phish-head who’d go with me, but that has been no easy task. Although everybody who knows me knows my strict attitude toward drugs (drugs & smoke = free radicals = stay away), I have been hesitant to randomly ask people at a conservative government agency who would want to take a day off to drive and camp 3 days at a Phish show!

So sadly, I can’t find anyone I know, near or far, who’s going to be at the Festival…TOTAL BUMMER! So to save some gas money and ease the boredom on the 8 hour trip, I may be searching next week for a drive buddy on Craigslist rideshare posts and then blogging, Flickr-ing, & tweeting while making new friends on the concert field (and perhaps among the clean and sober Phellowship).

I started making my own check list of things (which i will update here, later), but I did find this very useful resource at the Conventry Phish Blog and Music Blog. For the most part applicable!

Some other cool things to post: First off, I’m going to be making the 8 hour drive to Indio from Mountain View along this route:

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and will be enhancing a timeline of what I observe at the Festival on this Google Calendar

Stay tuned, I’m going to have as much fun with this as I can!