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Vail-Day Five-Coming Home

"2000 Light Years From Home"The Rolling Stones "Satanic Majesties" gets a bad rap.  Seen as a lame imitation of "Sgt. Pepper" at the time, it’s been almost completely forgotten.  Nobody’s searching for all four Beatles’ faces in the 3-D cover.  The only song that was a hit, if you can even call it that, was […]

Vail-Day Four-Bolshoi Ballroom

Well, with the weather report predicting blistering cold, we didn’t rush out to the hill.  But, when we finally arrived at the Vista Bahn we were stunned to find out it wasn’t that cold, and barely windy at all, and CROWDED!  As crowded as Christmas.  Did I not get the memo?  Is President’s Day now […]

Vail-Day Three

Sometimes you’re the windshieldSometimes you’re the bug I sing songs to myself while I’m skiing.  Coming down Born Free this morning this song by Mary Chapin Carpenter went through my brain.  Oh, Mark Knopfler wrote it, but she had the "hit". Actually, the song of the day was "Ride Captain Ride". Seventy three men sailed […]

Vail-Day Two

Take me back, carry me backDown to gasoline alley where I started from I was sitting here listening to my iPod through Felice’s JBL On Stage speakers and I heard Elton John’s "The King Must Die". You see I’ve got a playlist.  Of the 200 most played songs in my iTunes library.  I pull it […]