all aboard?

so it's summer and that can mean only one thing: road trip.

me, tony, margarete, and our good friend erik are hightailing up to san francisco at the end of august for the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. it's a three day festival (the 22nd, 23rd, 24th), but we're just going for friday the 22nd. and personally, i think that the lineup for that day equals a whole weekends worth of rockin': cold war kids, the black keys, beck, and radiohead amongst others.

so this is an open invitation to anyone else who might be interested in joining us for some road trippin'. we're either going to be driving in one of our cars or taking the amtrak up the coast. either way, if anyone wants to join i'm sure we can figure out the best way to get us all up there safe and sound. a ticket for the day runs about $100 (including all those lovely little fees they tack on). if we take amtrak roundtrip tickets are also about $100, if not we could just split the price of gas. either way, i think we should all be able to still afford enough film to document the aventure as it unfolds. housing is still an issue that needs to be looked into, but we have a couple options we can explore when the time is right. if not, i don't know about you guys, but camping in Golden Gate Park sounds pretty fun.

another potential roadtrip for the summer, or really just whenever people have a free weekend they want to use to go exploring, is down to the salton sea. for those not familiar with it, it's an inland lake that was accidentally created at the turn of the century and had a community boom in the 1950s. basically it was advertised as being the next Palm Springs, but a number of geological occurences essentially left the lake dead and most people abandoned the area. fortunately for us they left almost everything behind (houses, a marina, a whole hotel, etc), much of which is still around and terribly decrepit. sounds gross, but it's picture perfect. there's also salvation mountain, an entire hill that has been painted and repainted by a guy named Leonard that is definitely worth checking out.


but enough from me, any ideas from anyone else out there? and not just road trips either, know of some local spots to check out? let us know.