chicago to neil's dad's fixer-upper-house in highland park!

leaving promptly at 5pm we followed the lakefront as best we could (50% success rate mas o menos) northward-bound to a very well-off suburb called highland park, where neil's dad is fixing up a house that was well equipped for our arrival. air mattress, table, fold-out chairs, guitar, harmonica, mad-libs, the best pizza around, and 6 oz bottles of wine. neil is the man!!!! we hung out playing music and eating for a couple of hours before neil had to go home cuz he works at the ass crack of dawn. then phil and i improvised a ballad that tells the tale of everything we have seen heard and spoken from may 20th to present day.

highland park to..... whoops not milwaukee

planned on making it to milwaukee, got sidetracked by a sweet eco-justice center run by the Racine Dominican nuns about 20 miles south of the city. they are looking for a part time worker for any eco-justice interested unemployed readers. so we pitched a tent in the yard of a church right near the center, the pastor asked no questions but just offered us a spot right away as well as some dessert! we made great friends with the mosquitoes but only 3 made it inside the tent and they quickly met their fate. good-bye, and good-night.

whoops not milwaukee to milwaukee!

UMM SO TODAY WE GOT TO MILWAUKEE WHERE SUMMERFEST IS GOING ON AND GOT TICKETS TO SEE BOB DYLAN AND WILLIE NELSON!!!!!!! willie nelson is still young and chipper seeming, while bob dylan has undeniable style but is undeniably lacking in the vocal range he had of yesteryear. it was so amazing just to be there in the presence of them, i am sure its the only time i will get to do this in my life!!!!!! willie nelson did a lot of covers and was just rockin'. bob dylan i seriously cant even describe the style of him and his band. the only songs i recognized were desolation row and like a rolling stone but thats ok... my favorites are the ballads and i knew he was not really going to be letting the vocals shine. we also saw pete francis from dispatch and a fiddler with her band, ruby jane, from austin texas who is amazzzzingggggg.
the 4th is coming up.... i hope y'all are doing something spectacular with spectacular folk =0)