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Concert in the Park

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Each year in July the Pocatello Parks and Recreation Department sponsors a series of concerts in Ross Park featuring the city municipal band and other local musicians. Tonight a brother-sister fife and drum duet are featured. Their father died last Friday and this is an unplanned tribute to him.

This is the last concert of the season, so there’s quite a crowd. It’s a very pleasant evening with a light breeze. A few cloud in an otherwide sunny sky. We’re currently in the shade but that won’t last long as the sun gets lower in the sky.

All the benches are full, lots of people (like us) bring their lawn chairs. Some also do a picnic while waiting. There’s quite a number of folks standing who’ll soon be looking for spot of grass.

What a fun traditional evening in the park with the city band. Thanks, Pocatello Parks and Recreation and the Pocatello Municipal Band.

Driving Through Montana

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We’re about 25 miles west of Missoula, Montana on I-90 headed east. We’re following the Clark Fork river which goes past Heron, Montana where we started this vacation trip a couple of weeks ago.

Nina is driving. We’re holding the speed down to 55 mph to save gas. Hopefully we’ll get upwards of 10 mpg on the freeway. At these speeds even the ancient VW camper vans are passing us. I think I should make a sign to go on the back of the tracker saying why we’re going slowly. We’re going to take some more trips, including out to Daryl’s wedding in October.

The west half of Montana is quite pretty, even from the Interstate. I was expecting more traffic, though, as this is a holiday and the start of a three-day weekend. We’ll be home around 8 pm tonight. Another 7.5 hours to go.