Woodstock...two days of peace, love and music

It occurred to me as we drove into Bethel, NY that driving Sugaree is like driving an art car on the playa at Burning Man.  We're just fortunate that the playa in our case is the entire US, so it's fun to cross the country and meet so many cool people along our way.  We missed Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band and the Edgar Winter Group and Blood Sweat & Tears on Friday night due to our AC delay in Dallas.  Saturday, we rolled into Bethel with an hour to spare before jumping on the shuttle bus from the camp to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, where the 50th anniversary of Woodstock was being celebrated.  We caught the Doobie Brothers and Santana, which was fun.  After the Boulder incident a couple months ago, you'd think we'd bring our rain gear.  No...not us!  We left the rain gear in the bus and went to the show, only to be rained upon for about thirty minutes, but it was fine and it felt pretty good and the vibe was great!

Our campground was perfect.  It was full of people going to the shows and/or just celebrating the anniversary of Woodstock. From the looks of it, most of the people at this show were at the original Woodstock in 1969.  One guy even had his original $7 ticket in mint condition.

The next day, we headed to the venue early to park Sugaree and hang out before the John Fogerty show.  We had people come into the bus from Germany, Russia, Belgium, Canada and France and all over the US.  Francois and Jean Michele spoke no English, but loved Sugaree and we all had fun laughing about her.  Sabine and Harry from Belgium were very cool and hung out with us for awhile.

We had a great crew of people through the bus over the course of the day, and towards the end where we were about to head in, one of the guys hanging with us, Kevin, tells us that the show has been delayed due to weather and nobody was being admitted.  This worked fine with us and we just continued to enjoy ourselves in the bus with the folks who happened to be in or near the bus when the rain started.  After about 45 minutes, the rain subsided and a beautiful double rainbow came out.  At this point, we went in, and brought our rain gear this time...but never needed it!

John Fogerty and his band were awesome.  We saw the opening night of his tour in Las Vegas in April in a small theatre, and this place is pretty big.  It was great!  John sung all of his iconic songs and the crowd responded really well.  It was pretty cool to hear John's son, Shane playing Hendrix' version of the Star Spangled Banner and John's other son, Tyler kicked some ass on My Generation.