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Panajachel and the future of the tour

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:32:24 +0000

The group has made it to Panajachel Guadalajara where we have set up gigs everynight. We rode here from Chichicastanango, which was a cool little town. We have been playing a show every night so far and will continue to play shows here until Monday. On Monday night or Tuesday morning I am not positive bu I think we are gong to head towards Antigua and then Guatemala City and take a bus to El Salvador for the elections.From San Salvador,El Salvador we will take another bus to Costa Rica and then potenntially ride into Panama. Then afer Panama we will take a bus back up to Mexico! I am excited to get back on the road and continue our way down south towards Panama. I am also excited to go back to Mexico where I met a lot of cool people and made some new friends.

So now we are off handing ou flyers for the concert tonight and trying to promote the band a little bit. Heres the list of gigs for the weekend.

Sabado/Saturday-Solomon´s Porch-9pm

Domingo/Sunday-PanaRock-7pm

Lunes/Monday-Las Chinitas-7pm

Pleasantries

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:24:41 +0000

Kipchoge anchors the meeting point here in North San Juan, CA. His micro-shack 120 square feet in size ‘on the ridge’ between the south and middle Yuba rivers in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas is now temporarily home to seven revolutionaries as we prepare for the Mexico/Central America tour.

December 31^st- The first members to arrive from a two-day Florida to California mission were, Jared, extra-ordinary bassist revolucionario with bike living veteran status, Matt, friend of Jared and new crew member recently back in the states from teaching in China, ready to continue world travels, chop wood and speak spanish, and I, the sole returning crew member, fresh off the northeast tour and feeling again drawn to join the Pleasant Revolution.

Cory, passionate musician-guitar player from Portland, OR, and additional craiglist connection, arrived on Jan 5th post undergrad education boredom.

Dave the new drummer taking time off from his music studies at Berklee in Boston, and another new crew member/musician Josh from Worcester, MA, tiptoed into the shack around 2am, Jan 8^th. Dave and Josh both met the band during the northeast tour.

Laughter, the group’s new merchant and experienced traveler/wanderer/musician also lives on the ridge and will meet us in Mexico once her passport gets here. She will leave California with her son and recent high school graduate, Brian, who wants to join the journey for a short while before he settles in Grass Valley, CA.

More will join inevitably.

For now, we are nine…

Brief transition

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Eight revolutionaries joined together in the Northeast in early September 2008. After travels started in NY, and continued through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, flavored with gigs at colleges, boarding schools and house basements, river camping, tight rope walking, five members brought the tour back to New York. We were three men and two women when the tour officially ended. Kipchoge made the decision to take time off from touring to breathe, be, sing, write, travel, work on sponsorships, visit loved ones, etc. Everyone welcomed the idea of going ‘home’ before the potential Mexico journey even though the plan originally saw us on a route from NY to Florida to Mexico, with stops along the way for planned events or surprises but all part of one tour. We departed on separate paths into the mostly unplanned, immediate future with momentum, excited about possibly reuniting.

***Yeah, I realize how dense the experiences are in a month when you are traveling on bicycle. The human brain loves new challenges and works best when they are present. Senses are wild, open. Everything soaks in somewhere. New smells, thoughts, faces all create a primo playground for the ever evolving human consciousness. The stories of the Northeast tour are now for a story-like medium. Until that is realized, upcoming pictures will endeavor to sit in that space.

To read more as experienced by Crystal Stafford, opening act for the Ginger Ninjas:

partylikeabikestar.blogspot.com