Posting up in Denver

The biggest two day event around which I scheduled my two week trip came and went. I moved my cousin into a new house near her school, so Friday I was too busy to come into Denver for the Post’s Underground Music Showcase. Saturday, however, was all kinds of rock.

Saw a lot of great, promising and talented bands. There were ones I hadn’t seen (Red Orange Yellow, We Are! We Are!), ones I had (The Swayback, CAT-A-TAC) and a solo set from someone I’d seen in another band before (Jeff Suthers from Bright Channel). Talked a lot about the local music scene with Jeff and his musically-inclined friends after his show and enjoyed myself immensely.

Here’s some of Jeff at the Showcase.

Sunday and Monday were much tamer, though after meeting my friend Doug for lunch up in Golden he noticed smoke in the distance and guessed lightning may have caused a wildfire on Green Mountain. That’s pretty standard around this time of year when everything’s dry and the storms roll in. Problem is, I was staying at my aunt and uncle’s house in a subdivision at the base of said mountain. The entire afternoon and evening were full of excitement as I trekked up several hills to join a mass of gawkers at the flames and the firefighters/aircraft attempting to extinguish the blaze. At its closest it came about half a mile from where I was staying and eventually calmed, though not without getting me to smell like a barbecue.

Are the most exciting parts of road trips the unplanned ones? Probably.