Woodstock trip put off until June May 14, 2024
Map of Woodstock from our 2008 trip
Unfortunately, we have to put off our spring trip to Woodstock
because my wife has to work.
Most likely, we’ll take the trip north at some weekend after
June 9.
In the past, we have stayed at the same motel in Kingston
near the exist from the thru way, as I did with my daughter during the summer
of 2019.
At lot depends on the condition of my car and my finances.
The repair today cost $1,000, and there is a likelihood I will have to put more
money into the beast shortly – the repairs since the star of the year have been
horrendous, not just the usual tire or tune up issue. At one point, I had to
replace the sensors, which only last about six or so years. Then, when the car
started stalling, I had to replace other parts. Now this latest replacing
brakes and aspects of the horn (my inspection sticker still says November 2022.)
I don’t know why we keep going to Woodstock once or twice a
year when one of the main attractions had been the farm animal sanctuary, and
much of are interest since that moved somewhere to the south, has been the
Kingston waterfront.
But we still make it to Tinker Street for the walk around
shops we buy nothing in. Sometimes, we buy some jewelry from vendors near the parking
lot. Most often, we get something of interest from the flea market.
But that whole walk from one end to the other takes only a
few hours, unless there are musicians performing and then we settle in the
square and listen. Usually, when we make the trip in August, there is some kind
of special performance in remembrance of the Woodstock festival (which was in Bethal,
not Woodstock).
Last year, we returned to Bethal and Yascur’s Farm, most of
it changed dramatically from the open land we first encountered when we went
back there in the 1990s (I have photos that look so similar to the prelude to
the concert that it was like I had been on the ground during that concert instead
of hovering above it in an army helicopter.)
We went in search of Yascur’s grave which isn’t in Bethal,
but near the racetrack, though the photos depict the wrong graveyard and it
took us hours to find the right one so we could put stones on his grave.
(We did the same thing for Allen Ginsberg, although his
remains are in a number of place, including outside Paris, but fortunately, the
family grave is in nearby Newark – though it was as hard to find as Yascar’s.)
I guess part of the reason to go to Woodstock has to do with the filming of the Bob Dylan biopic, although oddly, they have been filming a lot of that in New Jersey, even some places in the towns in Hudson County where I cover. I just haven’t managed to catch up with an of that, so, we’ll go looking for The Big Pink house where Dylan and The Band lived as part of this year’s tribute to the past.
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