I’m writing this post from a hotel room in Boone North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has been quite a day. We awoke after about 3 hours sleep to get the airport in time for an early flight to Washington-Dulles Airport. Our 6AM flight did’t take off until 6:30, arriving just in time for us to make our connection to Greensboro. From Greensboro, we drove west, higher and higher, to Boone, where we had some lunch and checked into our hotel. Then back in the car to Wilkesboro and the first afternoon and evening of Merlefest…after stopping off to buy a couple inexpensive camp chairs, some fruit and granola bars.

We caught a few bands…a surprise highlight was Rhonda Vincent and the Rage….but lack of sleep started catching up with us, so we called it an early evening….tomorrow, we’ll be at the festival from mid-morning to late evening and we’re even going to get a taste of clogging and square dancing. Time for bed!