I’m going to Deep River, Connecticut on July 18. I’ll be taking drums and fifes with me, and probably will slip a whistle or two into my bag.
Nothing major so far. Have to wait and see what the job situation is like later in the year.
Will be working two renfairs in June and July. Of course flutes and whistles will attend as well.
Would like to do some more US Civil War battlefields this year if possible. That is what I’ve done for the past two years.
Thanks! I’m very excited about both!
(Need to get studying those Mahers Bahers tapes from last year…)
Headed out for Haiti tomorrow with donated whistles in tow–see you all in a couple weeks!!!
Tom
I havent had a real vacation longer than a 3-day weekend since 1998. This is not likely to change in the forseeable future.
However I may be getting some freeway whistling in as I get carpooled to summer school 50 miles away three days a week.
Next week I’m driving to Nova Scotia and sailing a friend’s boat back to Connecticut. Should be a bit of an adventure.
It’s my vacation for the year.
Being self employed is a mixed blessing when it comes to vacations. You can take as many days off as you like, you just don’t get paid for them.
Cheers,
jb
Just got back from the Great Rocky Mountain Session up in Lander Wyoming. It was a ton of fun, and very likely the most adventurous I will get this summer, aside from a little local camping and fishing. I did take pictures, and while I had a whistle with me when we went hiking/rock climbing (I just watched the rock climbing part) I don’t think there are any pictures of me playing or even holding a whistle. (duh moment)
There is a very slim chance that I might make it to Puerto Rico this summer, as a friend of ours occasionally gets free airline tickets in connection with his work. But we would still need to work out accomodations, food, and ground transportation once we got there, which would be a bit tricky on our budget right now. Yet one never knows I guess. If I were to go, a whistle would definatly make the trip with me.
Ah… summer…
Sara
Just a couple of long weekends planned this summer. One to Cape Cod and the other to visit some friends in Vermont.
All the Best, Tom
Ah, just got back about two hours ago and still feeling the jet-lag. We flew into Dublin, took the ferry to Wales, drove through England and spent the week near Killin Scotland. It was awesome!! We had a little cottage on Loch Tay. The most scenic place we ever been! Incredible adventure. We saw castles, did a little Nessie hunting, went to the Highland Games in Blackford, did an excursion to Edinburgh and explored castles in Wales and Castle Campbell near Stirling.
As going to Dublin was a last minute surprise - we were flying stand-by and discovered Dublin was our only option to get to the UK - I didn’t have a chance to do a lot of preplanning. However, I did make it to a session that evening and picked up some whistles from the Walton’s store and a Feadog as well.
wonderful trip . . . wish you all could have been there!
Amazing… 
Welsh llamas, this beats both Swëdish møøses and a flock of Peruvian llamas.
Now, Trisha, what’s the advantage of a packing llama vs. the old European donkey, or the more American mule?
Asses ain’t silly
What’s so amazing? After all, they’ve got that ddwbl LL thyng going on, so typically Cambrian…
I know they’re not exactly lllllamas, but one time I was at a zoo and two camels spit on me.
Yet more exotic! Camelll couples visiting American zoos!
What next? Muscovite mus musculi?
Yeah, these foreign types see the “Do not feed the Cranberry” signs, and have to be wiseguys instead. 
Wave as you drive past…
Travel and Adventure, eh Erik? Hmm, don’t know about that, but my whistles (and dog) and I have been to the following places over the last few months:
Asheville NC, Charlotte NC, St. Louis MO, back to Charlotte, then to Greensboro NC, up to the Philadelphia area, back to St. Louis, a stop in Colby Kansas (home of the Kansas Prarie Museum), and now Boulder CO. In a few days I expect to be headed further West, albeit a one flute and perhaps a few whistles lighter.
Now if I could only find some adventure…
Loren (A rolling Bookbinder gathers no moss) B.
Nano, I don’t think that counts as particularly exotic. I suspect they probably have at least as many mice in Moscow as in any other big city, maybe even more than most (despite the cold).
Steven
I recently took my whistle rock climbing, but had a slight oversight. By the time I got to the top of the climb, I was no longer certain I had the manual dexterity to remove the whistle from my (zippered) pocket, assemble it, play something, and return it to the pocket without dropping it onto the head of my belayer.
Oops. So I didn’t play anything. But it was there.
Do you ever make it as far as Damascus,VA ? They just finished up another “Trail Days” week which is quiet a big to-do, with folks from all over attending. Our pipe band plays for their parade each year and it’s one of our favorite jobs because of the people.