we're BACK !!!!   Back in the USA that is...after the Summerfolk Festival 2012 at Owen
Sound (Georgian Bay - Lake Huron).

It's Monday afternoon, (when I first start to write)...8/20/2012. 
It was an event filled "weekend...".
We actually started our trip on Thursday, because we like to get up to Owen Sound in
the daylight, and set up camp in the KOA camp ground; play some guitar, enjoy a
campfire, and just talking with the "herd"...(as they say in a song "catching up on
the things we've tried to do"). 
 
The Festival starts Friday PM...so Friday we get to sleep in and "veg"
The first change in plans was when one of the Herd members, (Gary) decided that he
wouldn't be traveling with the Herd (caravan of three vehicles)..but he would be
traveling separately Thursday NIGHT!!!! (Buffalo to Owen Sound)... WELL..he made
it...sort of... to Owen Sound but finding our campsite was a little more difficult.
So...he was basically "UP" (as in awake) all Thursday, AND Thursday night. 
So..Friday he was working on marginal sleep...
Anyway...The Festival started with a great Concert on Friday night...lasting until
after midnight...(typical for all three night concerts at Summerfolk). Obviously that
makes for a short night's sleep... because by the time we drive back to the
campground, start a fire...have a beer or two...talk, and get ready to 'crash' it's
around 2:30 AM.  Daylight comes not too long after that....(for three days).

Passing information about the festival will take a few emails, and blog posts...

One thing that was painfully obvious is that Susan and I have gotten used to the
Florida Keys, or Island temperatures... Owen Sound nights were "COLD"...
(I even resorted to wearing socks at night...which if you know me.. is a very large
STEP.... because I hate socks!!!!
 :)
Days, at the Folkfest, were wonderful, but had the potential for torrential downpours,
coming off Lake Huron.  Fortunately most of the downpours, and t-storms came at night,
after the campfires, and when we were nicely tucked into the tents.  :)  yeah!!! 
Gary did get to play in one OPEN Stage, and Bill Pomerhn sang in the Summerfolk Choir
again. 
We had one hospital event, when Gary, ostensibly started to pass a kidney stone..(i.e.
extreme pain)... So that took Gary and Gar out of the festival grounds for Sunday
afternoon... (Gar had to drive Gary to the local hospital...).  
Several stories surround that incident...which will have to wait 'til later to be
told.

But the hospital did erroneously KEEP Gary's "enhanced Drivers Licence" after issuing
him some pain meds...so that made getting back into the USA a bit of a scene.

Kelvin and Bill also had a few tense moments at the Peace Bridge when Bill accidently
dumped Kelvins NEXUS card into the back seat, and under all the camping gear...when
they were one car from the customs/immigration inspector station.  :(   BUT, with a
lot of out of the car scrambling...they found the card, and were allowed to come
home...;)  yeah !
The music at the festival was phenomenal...we did get to see a lot of Nathan Rogers
(Stan Roger' son).  Wonderful.
OK... more to follow...company has just arrived...