Vail, post
Posted: 16 April 2005 at 12:30:00
Blogging live from in Juli’s Durango on I-70, heading west, on our way from Vail to Glenwood Springs where we will be playing at the Eagles club this evening.
Our experience in Vail was a mix of highs and lows. Our show Thursday was poorly attended for many reasons. First, the show had been bumped back from Friday but all the local advertising (e.g. the newspapers) were still advertising it for Friday. The Sandbar had no posters or flyers posted anywhere on the premises. It was a Thursday, as opposed to a Friday or Saturday. Finally, It’s officially “off-season” in Vail now.
Nonetheless, the people who did show up seemed to enjoy the band and by the end of the second set, the band had some fun with it.
We stayed at our favorite Holliday Inn on Thursday night. It’s literally next door to the club, so it’s very convenient. They also have high-speed Internet access in all the rooms... but the network was not functioning properly so we were unable to take advantage of that.
I was extremely tired on Thursday and was hoping to catch some Z’s during the drive to Vail, but it just didn’t happen. After the show, we all had the munchies, so we went out looking for a place to eat. Someone had told us there was a restaurant in the middle of Vail called DJ’s that would be open. We all piled into the Durango to go find it but when we did, it was closed. We went back to the hotel and Thom and I hit the 7-Eleven for some snacks. By the time I got to bed it was after 4 a.m. Friday morning, we had to check out of the hotel and check into our new digs.
We had two choices. The club had reservations for us at the Roost Lodge which is down the street from the club. A fan of the band named Tracey had extended an offer to us to stay at the hotel she worked at so we checked it out as well. That was the Apollo Park Lodge (or Lounge, depending on who in the band you talked to). The room they had us set up in was a condo that could 4-8 people and included a kitchen area. Juli, Matt, Thom, and I decided to stay there while Greg and Tim (the drinking-members of the band) elected for The Roost.
After we got settled in at the Apollo Park, I took a nap for 2-3 hours while the others went out and got some groceries. Later, we got the idea of bringing the video projector in and watching some Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVDs on the wall. We watched episodes 4-8 and the “Making-Of” featurette for the episode Once More With Feeling. That was fun and relaxing.
Juli and Matt went to bed after we were done with that. Thom and I stayed up a little later watching some stand-up comedy and flipping channels.
I got about 7 hours of sleep and I feel a lot better, especially since I’ve been fighting a sinus infection or something. I’ve just been popping sudafed and ibuprofen to keep the symptoms at bay but a healthy amount of sleep is always a good thing to have when trying to nurse yourself back to health.
Contrary to Thursday’s show, tonight’s show
Thom has been taking notes in a notebook all during the trip with the intention of typing them up and posting them on the SoN site. By the looks of it, the Thomolog may grow substantially after this trip.