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Here is a list of live music that we have seen in the past 11 days (in order):

Driggs, ID Music on Main
Thursday, August 14th
Chuck Prophet

Jackson Hole Music Festival
Sunday, August 17th
The Avett Brothers, The Miller Sisters, Robert Randolph and His Family Band, Ben Harper & and Innocent Criminals, The Black Crowes

Driggs, ID Music on Main
Thursday, August 21st
Jackie Greene

Outside Lands Festival – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
Sunday, August 24th
ALO – Animal Liberation Orchestra, The Mother Hips, Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Widespread Panic, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Los Amigos Invisibles, Wilco, Jack Johnson

There is really too much to cover here in the text.  But, to sum it up, we woke up this morning on the North end of the Ruby Mountains in Nevada.  After grabbing some much needed coffee, we pointed ‘er West and found ourselves in Truckee, California by Noon at Tal’s house.  We promptly jumped into his new find, a GT Dart ragtop and ran into town for some more coffee and lunch at Wild Cherries (we always end up there at least once when we are in town).

Then it was back to Tal’s house so that he and Lisa could get on the same page of his business as she will be helping him out as it grows.  While they were digging deep into the business, I was looking up airport information for flying into Black Rock Airport (otherwise known as the Burning Man Airstrip) for our late afternoon outing.

Tal fired up the Skyhawk and flew us about 1 hour North (as the Skyhawk flies) of Truckee above Burning Man.  The event has not yet started, but there were signs of big things to come for the week ahead.  We touched down on the desert floor and learned a bit about soft landing and takeoffs.  Of course, the highlight might have been the last few minutes in the sky as we landed in Truckee.  I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Oh yeah…and one more thing…I guess we need to add flight instructions to the list of things to do in life!

Although we have not been writing much lately, maybe you can all catch up by way of our photo albums. We will try to at least post a link to each photo album as we upload new images onto Flickr. It seems that we don’t have time to do it all and we have been slacking lately on keeping the actual text up to date. We just returned from a longer weekend in Glacier National Park late last night. For now, here is the gallery of our time up there in Northern Montana.