Belated update

Hey folks! I'm sorry for the belated update on our Arkansas trip. When we got to Waldron, much to our chagrin, we had no cell phone or internet service. You should have seen us walking around the campground for 2 days trying to catch a signal with our phones so that we could make a quick call home. I'm sure it was quiet comical at times. That explains the phone booth that they had right in the middle of the campground. I haven't seen one of those in a long time. Then we got back Friday morning at about 7 am and I spent the next 2 days trying to get rid of "bus lag", then there were the festivities surrounding Father's Day. It's been wild around home for us all.

Turkey Track was a very beautiful campground that was down in a hole between two ridges. We had a great time playing, but it sure was hot! We appreciate Troy Engle going along with us and helping us out on banjo and fiddle. He is very talented and an all around great guy to hang out with.

The stage at Turkey Track was really cool. It had a lots of wood work and ornamentation around it, but the thing that caught our attention, was a great big American flag as the back drop. I don't think enough people these days honor our flag and this country enough. Seeing the flag inspired us to do something we had never done before. For our encore number for the Thursday evening show, we did an a capella version of "God Bless America". It was awesome to see the crowd of around 1,ooo people rise to their feet in honor of their country and our flag. Some were waving thier hats, some were smiling, others had tears in their eyes. It was an awesome night!

Once again, the bus performed flawlessly, well almost. We were riding along Friday morning, somewhere in Mississippi at about 3 in the morning, when all of the sudden the door just opened up! We hadn't hit a bump or anything it just opened up! As you can imagine, it scared me to death. Lorne was asleep on the couch in the front lounge and everyone else was asleep in the bunks. I was able to wake Lorne to come up and close it and we made the remainder of the trip without incident. By the way, we think the reason for the thud that we heard on the trip out there was the result of us loosing our center hub cover off of the front wheel. It is no big deal because the piece only serves as a cover and is not really functional.

Be sure to check back often, as there are some exciting things happening in the TBSP camp that I hope to be able to tell you about real soon.

Later,
Wayne