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Summer 09 Tour: Episode 1– The Van

by Nora Jane Struthers in News




Dear Friends,

I am on tour!  My very first tour!  I want to cheers the Honda car company:
Cheers!  My Honda Odyssey mini van is serving us well on the road.  We fit an upright bass, two mandolins, a guitar, a fiddle, and all of our stuff into this beaut and we still have room for the band!  I particularly appreciate the disappearing back seat.  
We started in Knoxville, TN playing WDVX’s Blue Plate Special radio show hosted by the one and only metro-billy, Matt Morlock.  That night we shared the bill with The Hankensaw Boy’s at Barley’s Taproom.  It was great fun.
Many video’s to come…
Thanks for reading friends.
Sincerely,
Nora Jane
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Ophir’s Pass

by Nora Jane Struthers in News






 

Dear Friends,

 

If you ever drive from Nashville to Colorado in a loaded down Honda Odyssey minivan, do not take County Road 8 over Ophir’s Pass to get over the mountains in between Silverton in Telluride unless: you like driving as slow as the minivan can possibly go, fording small mountain streams, being really quiet so as to avoid creating an avalanche, hairpin turns on a railing-less rocky mountain road, and have at least one extra person to get out at the top and walk most of the rest of the way moving the larger rocks out of the road so you don’t lose your exhaust pipe or bottom out. 

If however, you either do want the aforementioned things to happen or you happen to have a high clearance four-wheel drive vehicle, then GO FOR IT because it was an unbelievably beautiful road from which to experience the Rocky Mountains with my sweetie, PJ.

Thanks for reading friends.

Sincerely,

Nora Jane 

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