Hey, LL!
I'm really enjoying your story thread, and the point about 'luggin luggage up the stairs at cheap motels' especially caught my eye. This is not only because those are also my favorite images in Stewie's DVD (Stingo with the big suitcase in one hand and guitar case in the other collapsin on some bed inside some roach motel that looks to be in the middle of nowhere), but also because it helps me reflect on the adventures of Mad and I, who went (more than) one step further in our quest to save some bucks while followin our favorite band to the same shows as your clan...
As many of you nutters already know, we stayed in a TENT!! THAT'S how much we really love our boys! And, as I recall, we actually joked at one point about how funny it'd be if the boys were doin' the same... Ya know, to avoid the crowds, paparazzi 'n all... No one would expect them to be campin out at Moreau Lake State Park (where we camped about 10 miles from Saratoge Aug. 1&2) --ya, I know... FAT CHANCE!!
Even so, not far from our campsite off of Long Beach (near Jones Beach, where we stayed Aug. 4-8--Thank God for the Long Island railroad runnin downtown 24-7!! 3 a.m. train ride Aug. 8 was a lifesaver, baby!!
), we did see a fancy-schmancy-lookin resort-type place in the distance while hangin out on the beach the afternoon prior to JB2 on Aug. 5, and while fantasizin that the boys might be stayin there, we even considered hikin across the sand to see if we could do the 'peasant-groupie' thing, tryin to get a glimpse of one of our boys peerin' out of some highly-perched veranda overlooking the ocean. In the end, we said 'Nah! Too long of a walk for that!' (Ya, our age is showin, eh?
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Havin said that, we did have a 'roach motel' experience outside of Holmdel, NJ (like you, our 2nd venue of the final 5-show leg)... this was complete with a couple of hikes up steps with bags (and our wet tent), followed by checkin into an empty-beer-bottle-n-dirty-ashtray-laden-room (which we did get changed to a properly-cleaned non-smokin' one, thankfully). Ya, this place coulda been one the boys visited back in the day... Their spirits (in the not-so-material world) were definitely with us then...
Anyway, great stuff! Thanks for the memories! And ya, I'm with Mad in sayin the kids had awesome shirts! Oh, and thanks again for not makin fun of my true-to-form 'nutter' outfit that night in Saratoga, sista'! I was glad to hear my 'short bus' get-up made your kids feel better about the somewhat-forced-krypton-green-T-Shirt-child-labor-decoratin-at-last-minute-sweatshop-party... Good times, good times...
Keep the stories comin, girl!
ROCK ON! --JenX
1,000 rainy days since we first met...