If you’re looking for an updated fishing report come back soon, I’m working on it. In the meantime, allow me a bit of self-indulgence and feel free to read on…..or not.
It’s been a busy week, mostly away from the shop and away from the water. As summer winds down we typically try to do some family time mini vacations before the kid and the wife are back to school.
It just so happened this summer that things overlapped and we ended up with a week which took us to Missoula and back, followed by a quick run to Seattle and back and then on to Missoula to bookend a super fun week with a bunch of windshield time and some cool outings.
We started on Sunday in Missoula, going to see Emmylou Harris at the Wilma. We aren’t hard-core Emmylou fans but she is a legend and when you get the chance to see a legend like Emmylou at a great venue like the Wilma you go. It was a great show which was never really on “the list” for me but which should have been. Go see Emmylou if you get a chance. 
She’ll be back in Montana on the 25th of August with John Prine for “An Evening at the Arch: Yellowstone Celebrates the National Park Service Centennial”. This is a free show happening in Gardiner MT. I believe it’s been SOLD OUT for a while now but maybe worth taking a trip to Gardiner anyway just to see what you can see.
If you follow the blog you know that I am a huge Detroit sports fan. Lions, Tigers, Wings, Pistons….it doesn’t matter which team….I love them all and will go to great lengths to watch them any chance I get. My son has been bugging me to take him to a ball game and it just so happened the Tigers were playing in Seattle three nights this week so off to Seattle we went on Wednesday for the final game of the series.
My last trip to Seattle was in the early 90’s and my son had never been so it was a great opportunity to get back there for a quick visit and to see our Tigers. It ended up being a losing effort (all week long) for the Tigers but the trip to Safeco Field was well worth it. What an awesome ball park in a great city.
During my last visit to Seattle in the early 90’s I was (and still very much am) a complete Twin Peaks Freak. It was the main reason I decided to head west for spring break that last year of college and it was at the height of the show. Visiting the filming locations was definitely the highlight of that trip for me.
Last year my son started to get into the show so we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to revisit the real Twin Peaks on our way back from Seattle. He was excited to see the various locations and I was stoked to be able to see several locations I never found the first time around. To be able to look up TP Filming Locations on the IPhone and get turn by turn directions to all of them was amazing, especially considering when I did this trip back in the early 90’s cell phones weren’t widely used yet and there was certainly no such thing as a Smart Phone. Could I sound much older? Anyways, it was an awesome experience for both of us.
Tomorrow we will top off the week with another concert at The Wilma. This time it’s Ryan Adams and if it’s anywhere near as good as his show at Big Sky Brewing Company last summer it will be an awesome ending to a great week. I’ll be accompanied by my son who, while preferring the stylings of Kanye West or Drake, tolerates Ryan Adams maybe just to humor me. It will be one of his first concerts though so hopefully he’ll look back someday and thank me for taking him to such a great show.
Thank you for allowing me a bit of self-indulgence. Back to Missouri River Fly Fishing tomorrow!
Good read! I enjoyed your comments about North Bend and Safeco field. Twin Peaks was filmed when I lived there, I had no idea who Kifer Southerland was at the time. The MarT Cafe was a place for a good meal back in the 80s, I hope you explored some of the back roads.