Finally made a decision on a vacation...going to Missoula, MT for this amazing music festival. I think The Decemberists saw what Wilco have been doing with Solid Sound and decided to put on their own version of that. I'm pretty okay with it, considering it's a helluva lot closer. thenewgreen where should I look into staying around town? Never been to Missoula but there's a pretty sweet looking hostel. Anyway, PR'd my 5k time two of the last three weeks. I'm still slow, but I'm finally hitting < 24 minutes for a 5k, and am on a fairly set running and weight lifting regiment. Between that and the "not drinking this month" thing, I haven't had much to talk about, really. Feels like I'm a boring individual human bean when people ask me what I've been doing. Guess it's hard to explain. For some reason a 4-mile mud run in a park doesn't seem like an amazing time to some people. Also, compression tights are really, really fucking comfortable. I need to do a better job with nutrition, though, between work and all the fitness stuff it's hard to find the time to make a good meal before 8pm, which is later than I really want to be eating. Once the Farmer's Markets start back up that should make things a bit easier.
I wouldn't have the faintest on where to stay. I haven't been there in over 15 years. If it's still around, you have to get JJ's chicken fried steak, at the Oxford. late night after the bar. It will taste like ass unless its after 2-am. Also, if it still exists, the Eastgate lounge had a pretty damn good jukebox. You should get out of Missoula and head up to glacier national Park. It's only a few hours north. The drive there is pretty amazing too. Flathead Lake is every bit as beautiful as Lake Tahoe. I don't have a lot of time right now, I'm sure there's much more I could suggest. The Decembrists are Colin Malloy's band, right? He had a band when I was at the University of Montana called Tarkio. They were the most popular band in town back then. I'm not surprised his concert is in Missoula. What venue?