Roadtrip - The Road Home - Day 2

Day 2 of the road home was the unexpected gem in the trip and that was because we had booked tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington (cool name hey?). We'd originally planned to do this stopover on the way home because Jason Mraz was the support act and since we're big fans, and it was on the way home why not? What we didn't realise was that Dave Matthews has been running this concert at around the same time every year at the same place and it's become a sort of pilgrimage for the hardcore DMB fans. Some of the people we met there had been to over 70 or 80 DMB gigs over the years and had been back to the Gorge 3 or 4 times. We just rocked up in the minivan with some groceries from a supermarket down the road a ways but there were people there with huge RVs, tents, generators, full on stereo systems, the works.


DMB campground...

The concert runs over the course of 3 days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and we could only stay the one night, but would have definitely stayed longer if we'd had the time. The Amphitheatre is truly spectacular, being cut out of the side of the Columbia River Gorge with the stage on the very edge so when you're sitting on your little terraced piece of grass on your blankets and lawn chairs you just have this amazing panorama of the sun going down over the Gorge and the stage right there in the midst of it all with this amazing music being played with huge amounts of enthusiasm and passion. Truly truly a great time. Sadly cameras weren't allowed into the venue itself, but this picture taken just down the road gives an idea of the sort of landscape that was the natural backdrop to the gig.


Columbia Gorge...