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Good music, and surely a good longhair crowd to be seen, here!
We hope to go, and maybe we'll see some of the San Francisco MLHH crowd there!
Bill
Wow ... sounds like a blast. Wish I could see it.
Lucky! Sure wish I lived nearer.
Ratdog and Greyboy...nice. Wish I could be at that one. We'll be going to Earth Day here in town tomorrow and again next weekend up in Tahoe. Should be fun, although I'm not sure of any musical lineup yet.
I heard the weather was supposed to clear up too. I think I just need to rest though. I put down a deposit on an apartment, and I need to move my stuff in there next week. It's funny that I arrived right around Earth Day. Now I can always remember that as the time I just got here.
That's better than arriving on April 18, Earthquake Day. As we drove down into the Valley from Donner Pass with our U-Haul truck holding all we owned, the radio was talking about earthquakes! Everyone back in Illinois had said we were fools to move to California because of its earthquakes.
We don't forget the anniversary of our migration that way, though. We went out to dinner Wednesday night to celebrate it - this year it fell on a Wednesday, just like it did that sunny day 28 years ago. The Sierra was yards deep in snow that year, and we had fled the worst winter Chicago had seen in many years. As we dropped into the Valley, within an hour we had gone from icy deep snow amid pine trees to green grass and palm trees, where it was 70 degrees out. It is a day fondly remembered; one I will never forget.
Welcome to California!
Bill
I'm sure that was a very dramatic way to enter the state, and I'll have to try it sometime. I chose to go across via I-40 for the specific purpose of avoiding Donner pass and any potential late-season blizzards on the northern plains.
I was ironicly greeted by wet snow in eastern Tennessee. It very briefly made me consider pulling off, but there was only a brief period where slush seemed to be gaining a foothold on the roadway.
Believe it or not, my actual entry into the valley was also on the 18th. I spent that night in Los Banos though. My memory is of coming over those hills and seeing the return of trees and farms from the desert. There were cattle actually walking in a line along a narrow path on a very high hill. I couldn't take a picture of that because I was going 60mph on that windy road.
Then, in the valley, I was driving through all these fruit orchards. I saw a sign that said "California fruits and nuts", which was priceless. The next day, on my final leg through the hi-tech areas, I saw one of those jumbotron advertising signs. Evidently, they were using IE to display their ads. The browser couldn't connect and was showing the familiar "This page cannot be displayed" message to everybody on the 101. I literally laughed out loud.
The transition wasn't from snow and cold to the lush valley, but from a cold dry desert to the lush valley. Everything was still cold and windy in the valley though. From what I've been told, I got ripped off on my first experience of CA weather.