It has been way too long since I've written about the latest adventures with the Morrill Media Group...There is alot to report.
First off, the boys, Rodrigo Miranda and Jimmy Blumenfeld were at the
2007 Planet Reef Tour at Wrightsville beach over the weekend. Rodrigo advanced strongly through Friday but with a weak wave set during his Saturday heat, he got put on the beach to watch the rest of the contenders advance. As for Jimmy, because of his strong placement from last year, he got to jump right into the mix on Saturday. He advanced through the quarter-finals and advanced into Sunday. Sunday presented a heat with Rob Michado and Ben Bourgeois. Jimmy finished 3rd in that heat and out of 150 contenders made it to the top 10 and walked with $750. Congrats guys! Rodrigo will send some pics as soon as he settles in back in Flordia. Stay tuned
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Since July 10th, I've been on tour with West Indian Girl for their summer tour 2007. They are finishing up their new album and decided to hit the road for a bit before their new record release.
From July 10th through the 12th we traveled from LA to KC for our first show at the
record bar in historic Westport. After 3 days of hard driving and a couple of breakdowns we made it in time to get the band to the hotel and set up with an hour to spare. The show turn out was a nice comfortable crowd of people. The band had John Karr from the Independent in San Francisco fly in and join us at the first show to man the mixer. It was a nice night filled with music, pizza, beers, meeting new friends and we finally got out of the RV for a while.
After our first show in KC, we were off to the
All Good festival in Masontown, WV. The drive from KC to WV was long. Passing over all the hills and valleys made for a slow trip and with time running short, we had to drive straight through the night to make it before sunset on Saturday. After navigating the single lane back roads with a 34' RV and 12' trailer in tow was a challenge to say the least. We finally pulled into the festival at 9 pm. Once there, we settled into some dinner and started to walk around and catch some live shows. Sundays show was very exciting. I enjoy outside shows a lot, especially in the mountains listening to WIG. Just as they were getting ready to go on, the weather started turning from partly cloudy to ominous. 5 minutes after the set ended, the rain came down and it came down in sheets. The festival producers cut the power and the festival goers waited it out for about 45 minutes. All in all, a fun time at the All Good Fest.
So far, we have completed over 2,900 miles running on veggie oil. Thanks to Green Eye Autos in Eugene, OR and VegPower.com in NY. We've had great success at finding wvo and the people we've come across along the way have been very interested about the vehicle.
Today, July 17th, we are off to Boston for the
TT the bear's place show in Cambridge, MA.
Keep tuned for more bloggin and pictures.
Max
