The crazy road trip: Boston-VT-NYC with poets, actors, percussionists, trombones and 1 string quartet
December 7, 2011 
Just back. 10 days on the road. My first ever "tour" experience -- and it wasn't my tour, but my husband's. I was going along for the ride -- literally.
It was crazy, and fun, and the performances (what my husband was a part of) had lots of sensory experiences colliding all at once.There were poets reading T.S. Elliot. There were actors who were using their voices in ways I've heard only in France at the Roy Hart Center which does "extended" voice work. It's amazing to hear, though sometimes quite jarring (in the best possible way). And then there were the musical quartets -- a string quartet, a trombone quartet and a percussion quartet. I'd never heard a trombone quartet (very mellow and as visually soothing as a lava lamp to see the slides shortening and lengthening) or a percussion quartet (they did a piece all on high-hat which made me want to jump up and do calisthentics).
(By the way, the links above will take you to the musicians' home pages -- in case you want to hear more.)
Burlington Vermont is my kind of town -- truly. Love this place!And we got to go to Cambridge (love the Harvard Bookstore), Burlington Vermont (which is clearly my town -- where I'm meant to live the rest of my life with its bicycle bread delivery, the co-op and a library that checks out gardening tools as well as books) and NYC (where I found my dream bike and bought a pink Nutcase helmet).
By the way, that was a long sentence that probably shouldn't have ever been written. I'm not sure it hangs together and if you survived it, dear reader, I salute you!
We travelled by sleeper car on Amtrak both ways (from Chicago to Boston, and from NYC back to Chicago). See photo above -- gives you a sense of the space.
Now I'm really happy to be home, but I got to say that was a fun trip -- an adventure.
Here's a Flickr slideshow. I didn't document everything like I usually do, but I got a few good ones from each location . . . (If you're on an ipad and you can't do flash, here's the link: http://www.flickr.com//photos/amy13/sets/72157628310886225/show/ )
Enjoy!